Leptanilla escheri

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Leptanilla escheri (Kutter, 1948) valid

Leptomesites escheri Kutter, 1948: 287, figs. 1-7 (w.q.l.) INDIA (Tamil Nadu). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype queen. Primary type localities: workers, queen, larvae India: Travancore, nr Vandaravu, W side of Palni Hills, 1000-1500 m., 10.iv.1927 (K. Escher), workers India: Pumbarai, Plateau of Palni Hills (2 places), 2000 m., 27-31.iii.1927 (K. Escher), workers India: Kodai Canal, a few km. from Pumbarai (3 places), 2200 m., 21.iii.-17.iv.1927 (K. Escher). Primary type depository: NHMB. Type notes: Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 463, and Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 72, cite 6 worker syntypes in NHMB.

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1965b: 31 (l.)
Combination in Leptanilla: Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 462
Status as species: Yasumatsu, 1960: 20; Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 462 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 229; Bharti & Kumar, 2012c: 623 (redescription); Bharti et al., 2016: 32; Wong & Guénard, 2016a: 141 (in key); Leong et al., 2018: 14 (in key); Griebenow, 2024: 128.

Obsolete combinations

Leptomesites escheri

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1977c. Materiali per una revisione della sottofamiglia Leptanillinae Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologica Basiliensia 2:427-488. PDF
Baroni Urbani, C. 1977e. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)27:61-102. PDF
Bharti, H.; Guénard, B.; Bharti, M.; Economo, E. P. 2016. An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 551:1-83. PDF
Bharti, H.; Kumar, R. 2012c. A new species of Leptanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) with a key to Oriental species. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 62:619-625. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Griebenow, Z. 2024. Systematic revision of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1189:83-184. [online early] 10.3897/zookeys.1189.107506 PDF
Kutter, H. 1948. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Leptanillinae (Hym. Formicidae). Eine neue Ameisengattung aus Süd-Indien. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 21:286-295. PDF
Leong, C.-M.; Yamane, S.; Guénard, B. 2018. Lost in the city: Discovery of the rare ant genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Macau with description of Leptanilla macauensis sp. nov. Asian Myrmecology 10:16 pp. e010001. 10.20362/am.010001 PDF
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1965b. The ant larvae of the subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 72:24-34. PDF
Wong, M. K. L.; Guénard, B. 2016a. Leptanilla hypodracos sp. n., a new species of the cryptic ant genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Singapore, with new distribution data and an updated key to Oriental Leptanilla species. ZooKeys 551:129-144. 10.3897/zookeys.551.6686 PDF
Yasumatsu, K. 1960. The occurrence of the subfamily Leptanillinae in Japan (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Esakia 1:17-20. PDF

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