Leptanilla butteli

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Leptanilla butteli
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Leptanillinae
Tribe: Leptanillini
Genus: Leptanilla
Species: L. butteli
Binomial name
Leptanilla butteli
Forel, 1913

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Specimen Labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Malaysia (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

Worker

Images from AntWeb

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Syntype of Leptanilla butteliWorker. Specimen code casent0907031. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.


  • Qian et al. (2024), Fig. 7: Leptanilla butteli cotype worker. (A, D) head in full-face view; (B, E) body in lateral view; (C, F) body in dorsal view. (A - C) illustrations drawn from images, from AntWeb (2023); (D - F) images from AntWeb (2023), CASENT 0901484, photos by Ryan Perry.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • butteli. Leptanilla butteli Forel, 1913k: 25 (w.) MALAYSIA. See also: Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 456.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics