Leptothorax
Leptothorax | |
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L. acervorum dealate queen | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
Genus: | Leptothorax Mayr, 1855 |
Type species | |
Formica acervorum Fabricius, 1793
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Diversity[1] | |
21 species | |
Synonyms | |
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Leptothorax is a genus of small ants with mainly Holarctic distributions. The genus is notable for its widespread social parasitism, i.e. they are dependent on the help of workers from other ant species during a part or the whole of their life cycles.[citation needed]
Closely related genera are Cardiocondyla, Stereomyrmex and Romblonella.[2]
Species[]
- Leptothorax acervorum (Fabricius, 1793)
- (Bondroit, 1920)
- Leptothorax athabasca Buschinger & Schulz, 2008
- Leptothorax buschingeri Kutter, 1967
- Creighton, 1950
- Leptothorax crassipilis Wheeler, 1917
- Leptothorax faberi Buschinger, 1983
- Leptothorax goesswaldi Kutter, 1967
- Leptothorax gredleri Mayr, 1855
- Leptothorax kutteri Buschinger, 1966
- Leptothorax muscorum (Nylander, 1846)
- Blacker, 1992
- (Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1928)
- Leptothorax pacis (Kutter, 1945)
- Heinze & Alloway, 1992
- Leptothorax pocahontas (Buschinger, 1979)
- Francoeur, 1986
- Ruzsky, 1905
- Francoeur, 1986
- Heinze, 1989
- Zhou & Chen, 2011
References[]
- ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Leptothorax". AntCat. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
- ^ Taylor, Robert W. (1991). "Notes on the ant genera Romblonella and Willowsiella, with comments on their affinities, and the first descriptions of Australian species. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae)". Psyche. 97 (3–4): 281–298. doi:10.1155/1990/29514.
Categories:
- Leptothorax
- Ant genera
- Taxa named by Gustav Mayr
- Myrmicinae stubs