Artigo
Revision of the Neotropical ant subfamily Leptanilloidinae
Fecha
1999-01-01Registro en:
Systematic Entomology. Malden: Wiley-blackwell, v. 24, n. 1, p. 17-36, 1999.
0307-6970
10.1046/j.1365-3113.1999.00064.x
WOS:000078781800003
Autor
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Amer Museum Nat Hist
CEPLAC
Resumen
The rare Neotropical ant subfamily Leptanilloidinae is revised and its internal phylogeny and biogeography discussed. A new genus, Asphinctanilloides gen.n., including three new species, A, amazona, A. anae and A. manauara, and three new species of Leptanilloides, L. improvisa, L. legionaria and L. sculpturata are described. The only previously known species of the subfamily, L. biconstricta Mann (1923), is redescribed, and the larva of L, legionaria sp.n, is described. Keys to the genera and the species, and a phylogeny of the group are provided. Emphasis has been placed on the study of abdominal and sting characters.