Leptanilla alexandri

Leptanilla alexandri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Leptanillinae
Tribe:	Leptanillini
Genus:	Leptanilla
Species:	L. alexandri
Binomial name
	Leptanilla alexandri; Dlussky, 1969

Identification

Griebenow (2024), Figure 60. Dorsal outline of the penial sclerites (red) in the Leptanilla revelierii species group, diagrammatic, after Griebenow (2020: fig. 13G). A, Leptanilla alexandri. B, Leptanilla japonica.

Keys including this Species

Keys to Leptanillinae

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Uzbekistan (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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.

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.

Biology

Castes

Known only from males.

Nomenclature

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

alexandri. Leptanilla alexandri Dlussky, 1969b: 1667, fig. 1 (m.) UZBEKISTAN.

Description

References

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 229, catalogue)
Dlussky, G. M. 1969b. First finding of an ant from the subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the USSR. Zool. Zh. 4 48: 1666-1671 (page 1667, fig. 1 male described)
Griebenow, Z. 2020. Delimitation of tribes in the subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a description of the male of Protanilla lini Terayama, 2009. Myrmecological News 30: 229-250. (doi:10.25849/MYRMECOL.NEWS_030:229).
Griebenow, Z. 2024. Systematic revision of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1189, 83–184 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1189.107506).
Qian, Y.-H., Zheng-Hui, X., Man, P., Liu, G.-L. 2024. Three new species of the ant genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from China, with a key to the world species. Myrmecological News 34: 21-44 (doi:10.25849/MYRMECOL.NEWS_034:021).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

Baroni Urbani C. 1977. Materiali per una revisione della sottofamiglia Leptanillinae Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologica Basiliensia 2: 427-488.