The First Reconstruction of the Head Anatomy of a Cretaceous Insect, †Gerontoformica gracilis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), and the Early Evolution of Ants

A Richter, B Boudinot, S Yamamoto… - Insect Systematics …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The fossil record allows a unique glimpse into the evolutionary history of organisms living on
Earth today. We discovered a specimen of the stem group ant† Gerontoformica gracilis …

The head anatomy of Protanilla lini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae), with a hypothesis of their mandibular movement

A Richter, FH Garcia, RA Keller, J Billen… - Myrmecological …, 2021 - repositorio.ul.pt
The hypogaeic ant subfamilies Leptanillinae and Martialinae likely form the sister group to
the remainder of the extant Formicidae. In order to increase the knowledge of anatomy and …

Evolution and systematics of the Aculeata and kin (Hymenoptera), with emphasis on the ants (Formicoidea:†@@@ idae fam. nov., Formicidae)

BE Boudinot, Z Khouri, A Richter, ZH Griebenow… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Fossils provide unique opportunity to understand the tempo and mode of evolution and are
essential for modeling the history of lineage diversification. Here, we interrogate the …

A remarkable troglomorphic ant, Yavnella laventa sp. nov.(Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae), identified as the first known worker of Yavnella Kugler by …

ZH Griebenow, M Isaia, M Moradmand - Invertebrate Systematics, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
The ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) consists of minute soil-dwelling
species, with several genera within this clade being based solely upon males, including …

Three new species of the ant genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from China, with a key to the world species

YH Qian, ZH Xu, P Man, GL Liu - Myrmecological News, 2024 - biotaxa.org
The world members of the ant genus Leptanilla are reviewed based on the morphological
characters of the worker caste. Three new species, Leptanilla qinlingensis sp. n., L …

[PDF][PDF] Comparative morphology of male genital skeletomusculature in the Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a standardized muscular terminology for the …

ZH Griebenow, A Richter… - Arthropod …, 2023 - arthropod-systematics.arphahub …
The male genitalia of the Insecta are famed for structural and functional diversity. Variation in
this anatomical region shows ample phylogenetic signal, and this variation has proven …

[HTML][HTML]  Systematic revision of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Z Griebenow - ZooKeys, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract The genus-level taxonomy of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera:
Formicidae) is here revised, with the aim of delimiting genus-level taxa that are reciprocally …

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A Richter, FH Garcia, RA Keller, J Billen, J Katzke… - 2021 - biotaxa.org
The hypogaeic ant subfamilies Leptanillinae and Martialinae likely form the sister group to
the remainder of the extant Formicidae. In order to increase the knowledge of anatomy and …