Leptanilla

Leptanilla
L. swani queen and worker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Tribe: Leptanillini
Genus: Leptanilla
Emery, 1870
Diversity
67 species
Synonyms
  • Leptomesites Kutter, 1948
  • Phaulomyrma Wheeler & Wheeler, 1930
  • Noonilla Petersen, 1968
  • Yavnella Kugler, 1987
  • Scyphodon Brues, 1925

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.