Genus Leptanilla Emery, 1870

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leptanilla Emery, C. 1870. Studi mirmecologici. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 2: 193-201 [196 pl. 2] [redefined in Urbani, C. Baroni 1977. Materiali per una revisionel. della sottofamiglia Leptanillinae Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologica Basiliensia 2: 427–488].

  Type species:

   Leptanilla revelierii Emery, 1870 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Urbani, C. Baroni 1977. Materiali per una revisionel. della sottofamiglia Leptanillinae Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologica Basiliensia 2: 427-488.
• Phaulomyrma Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, E.W. 1930. Two new ants from Java. Psyche 37(3): 193-201 [193].

  Type species:

   Phaulomyrma javana Wheeler & Wheeler, 1930 (= Leptanilla javana (Wheeler & Wheeler, 1930)) by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Griebenow, Z.H. 2021. Synonymisation of the male-based ant genus Phaulomyrma (Hymenoptera : Formicidae) with Leptanilla based upon Bayesian total-evidence phylogenetic inference. Invertebrate Systematics 35: 603-636 [630]

 

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) (Framenau & Thomas 2008).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

South Palaearctic and east Oriental Region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

General References

Framenau, V.W. & Thomas, M.L. 2008. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): identification and distribution. Records of the Western Australian Museum 25: 45-85 [66]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	FORMICIDAE Latreille, 1809	21-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
23-Mar-2015	FORMICIDAE	10-Mar-2015	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		25-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		18-Oct-2011	MODIFIED
		25-May-2010	MODIFIED