Kingdom Animalia Family Formicidae Phylum Arthropoda Order Hymenopterans | Class Insecta Subfamily Dorylinae Rank Genus | |
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Similar Leptanilloidinae, Acanthostichus, Hymenopterans, Cheliomyrmex, Nomamyrmex | ||
Leptanilloides is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae. Leptanilloides is an uncommonly collected genus with subterranean habits in the New World Andean and sub-Andean tropics.
Taxonomy
With cryptic and eyeless worker ants, the genus was included in the ant subfamily Cerapachyinae (Brown 1975; Bolton 1990a, b) until Baroni Urbani et al. (1992) justified the establishment of a separate subfamily, Leptanilloidinae, hypothesized as the sister group to Cerapachyinae and all other members of the dorylomorphs. However, in 2014, Brady et al. synonymized the previous dorylomorph subfamilies (including Leptanilloidinae) under Dorylinae.
References
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