Leptanilla kubotai

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

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Specimen Labels


Common Name
Tosa-mukashi-ari
Language: Japanese

Nests of this species are found in small hollows in the soil (Kondoh, personal communication). Known only from the type locality. (Japanese Ant Image Database)

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 33.54999924° to 33.54999924°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Japan (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

  • Qian et al. (2024), Fig. 27: Leptanilla kubotai paratype worker. (A, D) head in full-face view; (B, E) body in lateral view; (C, F) body in dorsal view. (A - C) illustrations redrawn from Baroni Urbani (1977); (D - F) images from AntWeb (2023), CASENT 0902776, photos by Will Ericson.

Nomenclature

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

  • kubotai. Leptanilla kubotai Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 444, figs. 6, 8 (w.) JAPAN.

Type Material

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Baroni Urbani C. 1977. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitt. Entomol. Ges. Basel (n.s.) 27: 61-102.
  • Baroni Urbani C. 1977. Materiali per una revisione della sottofamiglia Leptanillinae Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologica Basiliensia 2: 427-488.
  • CSIRO Collection
  • Terayama M. 1992. Structure of ant communities in East Asia. A. Regional differences and species richness. Bulletin of the Bio-geographical Society of Japan 47: 1-31.
  • Terayama M., K. Ogata, and B.M. Choi. 1994. Distribution records of ants in 47 prefectures of Japan. Ari (report of the Myrmecologists Society of Japan) 18: 5-17.
  • Terayama M., S. Kubota, and K. Eguchi. 2014. Encyclopedia of Japanese ants. Asakura Shoten: Tokyo, 278 pp.