A new species of the Ant Genus Leptanilla Emery, 1870 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from sichuan Province, China
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v71i3.10478Keywords:
New species, ants, Leptanillinae, Leptanilla, ChinaAbstract
A new species of Leptanilla Emery, L. sichuanensis sp. nov., is described based on the worker caste from Sichuan, China. This new species is highly similar to L. macauensis Leong, Yamane & Guénard, sharing a conspicuous and strong central clypeal protuberance and clypeal lobes, along with a microspine-like subpetiolar process. The following characteristics of L. sichuanensis sp. nov. serve to distinguish it from the species: anteromedial circular disc of clypeal protuberance does not present a pair of triangular extensions on its medial margin, and instead has a complete curve; head and antennal scape longer in comparison (CI 67–70, SI 63–66); inferolateral margin of antennal toruli stretched angularly. An illustrated identification key for the Chinese Leptanilla based on the worker caste is provided.
Downloads
References
AntWiki. Available from https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Leptanilla (accessed date: 7 February 2024).
Baroni Urbani, C. (1977). Materiali per una revisione della sottofamiglia Leptanillinae Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologica Basiliensia, 2: 427-488.
Bharti, H. & Kumar, R. (2012). A new species of Leptanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) with a key to Oriental species. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw), 62: 619-625.
Bolton, B. (1994). Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 222 pp.
Bolton, B. (2024). An online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton. Available from https://www.antcat.org (accessed date: 7 February 2024).
Cai, C. (2024). Ant backbone phylogeny resolved by modelling compositional heterogeneity among sites in genomic data. Communications Biology, 7: 1-8.
Emery, C. (1870). Studi mirmecologici. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana, 2: 193-201.
Griebenow, Z. (2020). Delimitation of tribes in the subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a description of the male of Protanilla lini Terayama, 2009. Myrmecological News, 30: 229-250.
Griebenow, Z. (2024). Systematic revision of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys, 1189: 83-184.
Hölldobler, B. & Wilson, E.O. (1990). The ants. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. xii + 732 pp.
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: e010001.
Masuko, K. (1990). Behavior and ecology of the enigmatic ant Leptanilla japonica Baroni Urbani (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae). Insectes Sociaux, 37: 31-57.
Morisita, M., Kubota, M., Onoyama, K., Ogata, K., Terayama, M., Kondoh, M. & Imai, H.T. (1989). A guide for the identification of Japanese ants. I. Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae, Pseudomyrmecinae, Dorylinae, and Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Tokyo: Myrmecological Society of Japan, 42 pp.
Ogata, K., Terayama, M. & Masuko, K. (1995). The ant genus Leptanilla: discovery of the worker-associated male of L. japonica, and a description of a new species from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae). Systematic Entomology, 20: 27-34.
Qian, Y., Xu, Z., Man, P. & Liu, G. (2024). Three new species of the ant genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from China, with a key to the world species. Myrmecological News, 34: 21-44.
Saroj, S., Mandi, A. & Dubey, A.K. (2022). A new species of the rare ant genus, Leptanilla Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Eastern Himalaya, India. Asian Myrmecology, 15: e015005.
Tang, J., Li, S. & Chen, Y. (1992). The first discovery of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae in China and the description of a new species. Journal of Zhejiang Agricultural University, 18: 107-108.
Wheeler, W.M. (1923). Social life among the insects. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., vii + 375 pp.
Xu, Z. (2002). A systematic study on the ant subfamily Leptanillinae of China (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Acta Entomologica Sinica, 45: 115-120.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Ying Zhong
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Sociobiology is a diamond open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
eISSN 2447-8067
