Leptanilla swani

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Leptanilla swani Wheeler, 1932 valid

Leptanilla swani Wheeler, 1932d: 54, fig. 1 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 24 syntype workers, 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Australia: Western Australia, Chittering, Goyamin Pool, 10.x.1931 (D.C. Swan). Primary type depositories: ANIC, MCZC, NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0172006. Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 72, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB. 2) Wong & McRae, 2024: 178, add the locality information 31°27'S, 116°5'E, ca. 225 m a.s.l.

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1965b: 30 (l.)
Status as species: Yasumatsu, 1960: 20; Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 457 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 53; Taylor, 1987a: 34; Bolton, 1995b: 229; Heterick, 2009: 131; Griebenow, 2024: 129; Wong & McRae, 2024: 178.

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
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
Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1965b. The ant larvae of the subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 72:24-34. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1932d. An Australian Leptanilla. Psyche (Cambridge) 39:53-58. PDF
Wong, M. K. L.; McRae, J. M. 2024. Leptanilla voldemort sp. nov., a gracile new species of the hypogaeic ant genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Pilbara, with a key to Australian Leptanilla. ZooKeys 1197:171-182. [online early] 10.3897/zookeys.1197.114072 PDF
Yasumatsu, K. 1960. The occurrence of the subfamily Leptanillinae in Japan (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Esakia 1:17-20. PDF

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