Leptanilloides

Leptanilloides is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae.^[2] Leptanilloides is an uncommonly collected genus with subterranean habits in the New World Andean and sub-Andean tropics.^[3]

Leptanilloides
Leptanilloides biconstricta worker from Bolivia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dorylinae
Genus:	Leptanilloides Mann, 1923
Type species
Leptanilloides biconstricta Mann, 1923
Diversity[1]
12 species

Taxonomy

With cryptic and eyeless worker ants, the genus was included in the ant subfamily Cerapachyinae^[4][5] until the establishment of a separate subfamily, Leptanilloidinae,^[6] hypothesized as the sister group to the Cerapachyinae and all other members of the dorylomorphs.^[3] However, they were synonymized with the previous dorylomorph subfamilies (including the Leptanilloidinae) under Dorylinae.^[7]

Species

• Leptanilloides atlantica Silva, Feitosa, Brandão & Freitas, 2013
• Leptanilloides biconstricta Mann, 1923
• Leptanilloides caracola Donoso, Vieira & Wild, 2006
• Leptanilloides erinys Borowiec & Longino, 201
• Leptanilloides femoralis Borowiec & Longino, 2011
• Leptanilloides gracilis Borowiec & Longino, 2011
• Leptanilloides improvisa Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999
• Leptanilloides legionaria Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999
• Leptanilloides mckennae Longino, 2003
• Leptanilloides nomada Donoso, Vieira & Wild, 2006
• Leptanilloides nubecula Donoso, Vieira & Wild, 2006
• Leptanilloides sculpturata Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999

See also

• Amyrmex, sister genus of Leptanilloides