Leptanillini is a
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...
of
Leptanillinae
Leptanillinae is a subfamily of ants. They are further divided into the tribes Anomalomyrmini and Leptanillini.
In all Leptanillini, the larvae feed their hemolymph to the queen through specialized processes on their prothoraces and third abdo ...
ants
Ants are Eusociality, eusocial insects of the Family (biology), family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the Taxonomy (biology), order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from Vespoidea, vespoid wasp ancestors in the Creta ...
with three extant genera.
Genera
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Leptanilla
''Leptanilla'' is a genus of ant in the subfamily Leptanillinae. Like other genera in this subfamily, the queen is fed by the hemolymph of their own larvae, which have specialized processes for this purpose. ''S. swani'' is the only Australian ...
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Emery, 1870
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Phaulomyrma
''Phaulomyrma'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae containing a single species, ''Phaulomyrma javana''.
The genus was first described in 1930 with ''Phaulomyrma javana'' as the type species, based on two males from Bogor on the ...
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G.C. Wheeler & E.W. Wheeler, 1930
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Yavnella
''Yavnella'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae. Its two species are distributed in India and Israel. The genus is known only from male specimens.
Species
* ''Yavnella argamani'' Kugler, 1987 – Israel
* ''Yavnella indi ...
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Kugler, 1987
References
Leptanillinae
Ant tribes
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