Leptanilla islamica

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Leptanilla islamica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Leptanillinae
Tribe: Leptanillini
Genus: Leptanilla
Species: L. islamica
Binomial name
Leptanilla islamica
Baroni Urbani, 1977

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Identification

  • Griebenow (2024), Figure 59. Gonostylar shape in the Leptanilla revelierii species group, after Griebenow (2020: fig. 13F). A, Leptanilla islamica. B, Leptanilla australis.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 13.566667° to 13.083333°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: United Arab Emirates, Yemen (type locality).
Palaearctic Region: Oman.

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

Known only from males.

Images from AntWeb

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Holotype of Leptanilla islamicaMale (alate). Specimen code casent0280999. Photographer Cerise Chen, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Nomenclature

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

  • islamica. Leptanilla islamica Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 474, figs. 39, 45, 46 (m.) YEMEN.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Boudinot B. E. 2015. Contributions to the knowledge of Formicidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata): a new diagnosis of the family, the first global male-based key to subfamilies, and a treatment of early branching lineages. European Journal of Taxonomy 120: 1-62.
  • Collingwood C. A., D. Agosti, M. R. Sharaf, A. Van Harten, 2011. Order Hymenoptera, family Formicidae. Arthropod Fauna of the UAE 4: 405-474