A new species of the rare ant genus, Leptanilla Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Eastern Himalaya, India

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Saroj, Sheela, Mandi, Arnab, Dubey, Anil Kumar (2022): A new species of the rare ant genus, Leptanilla Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Eastern Himalaya, India. Asian Myrmecology (e 015005) 15: 1-9, DOI: 10.20362/am.015005, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.20362/am.015005

ABSTRACT. Leptanilla ujjalai sp. nov. is decribed and illustrated from the Neora valley National Park, Eastern Himalaya Himalaya, India. The new species differs from the Indian congeners in having four teeth on mandibles and an extended flange on anterior clypeal margin, and from others in flagellomers and petiolar characters. Images of holotype and SEM microphotographs of a paratype are provided. An identification key to workers of the Oriental and Sino-Japanese Leptanilla species is provided.

Keywords Leptanillinae, Himalaya, new species, India, Neora valley National Park

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Citation Sheela Saroj, Arnab Mandi & Anil Kumar Dubey (2022). A new species of the rare ant genus, Leptanilla Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Eastern Himalaya, India. Asian Myrmecology 15: e015005

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