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Noonilla
| Noonilla | |
|---|---|
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| Leptanilla copiosa | |
| Scientific classification (junior synonym of Leptanilla) | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Leptanillinae |
| Tribe: | Leptanillini |
| Genus: | Noonilla Petersen, 1968 |
| Type species | |
| Noonilla copiosa, now Leptanilla copiosa | |
This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Leptanilla.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- NOONILLA [junior synonym of Leptanilla]
- Noonilla Petersen, 1968: 582. Type-species: Noonilla copiosa, by original designation.
Taxonomic history
- Noonilla incertae sedis in Formicidae: Ogata, Terayama & Masuko, 1995: 33.
- Noonilla in Leptanillinae: Boudinot, 2015: 32.
- Noonilla as junior synonym of Leptanilla: Griebenow, 2024: 128.
References
- Baroni Urbani, C. 1977c. Materiali per una revisione della sottofamiglia Leptanillinae Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomol. Basil. 2: 427-488 (page 482, Noonilla in Leptanillinae)
- Bolton, B. 1990d. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Syst. Entomol. 15: 267-282 (page 276, Noonilla in Leptanillinae, Leptanillini)
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 70, Noonilla in Leptanillinae, Leptanillini)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 292, Noonilla in Leptanillinae, Leptanillini)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 263, Noonilla incertae sedis in Formicidae)
- 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 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.120).
- Cantone S. 2018. Winged Ants, The queen. Dichotomous key to genera of winged female ants in the World. The Wings of Ants: morphological and systematic relationships (self-published).
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. (page 79, Noonilla in Leptanillinae)
- 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).
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp. (page 12, Noonilla in Leptanillinae, Leptanillini)
- Ogata, K.; Terayama, M.; Masuko, K. 1995. The ant genus Leptanilla: discovery of the worker-associated male of L. japonica, and a description of a new species from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae). Syst. Entomol. 20: 27-34 (page 33, Noonilla incertae sedis in Formicidae (review of genus))
- Petersen, B. 1968. Some novelties in presumed males of Leptanillinae (Hym., Formicidae). Entomol. Medd. 36: 577-598 (page 582, Noonilla as genus; Noonilla in Leptanillinae)