''Leptothorax'' is a genus of small

ant Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22 ...

s with mainly

Holarctic The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical region ...

distributions. The genus is notable for its widespread social parasitism, i.e. they are dependent on the help of workers from other ant species during a part or the whole of their life cycles. Closely related genera are ''

Cardiocondyla ''Cardiocondyla'' is an Old World genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. Distribution Approximately 70 species are currently recognized as belonging to this genus, most of which are distributed in the Old World tropics and subtropics, b ...

'', '' Stereomyrmex'' and '' Romblonella''.

Species

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Leptothorax acervorum ''Leptothorax acervorum'' is a small brown to yellow ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae. It was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793. ''L. acervorum'' is vastly distributed across the globe, most commonly found in the coniferous fore ...

'' (Fabricius, 1793) *''

Leptothorax acervorum vandeli ''Leptothorax'' is a genus of small ants with mainly Holarctic distributions. The genus is notable for its widespread social parasitism, i.e. they are dependent on the help of workers from other ant species during a part or the whole of their lif ...

'' (Bondroit, 1920) *'' Leptothorax athabasca'' Buschinger & Schulz, 2008 *'' Leptothorax buschingeri'' Kutter, 1967 *''

Leptothorax calderoni ''Leptothorax'' is a genus of small ants with mainly Holarctic distributions. The genus is notable for its widespread social parasitism, i.e. they are dependent on the help of workers from other ant species during a part or the whole of their lif ...

'' Creighton, 1950 *'' Leptothorax crassipilis'' Wheeler, 1917 *'' Leptothorax faberi'' Buschinger, 1983 *'' Leptothorax goesswaldi'' Kutter, 1967 *'' Leptothorax gredleri'' Mayr, 1855 *'' Leptothorax kutteri'' Buschinger, 1966 *'' Leptothorax muscorum'' (Nylander, 1846) *'' Leptothorax muscorum uvicensis'' Blacker, 1992 *''

Leptothorax oceanicus ''Leptothorax'' is a genus of small ants with mainly Holarctic distributions. The genus is notable for its widespread social parasitism, i.e. they are dependent on the help of workers from other ant species during a part or the whole of their lif ...

'' (Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1928) *'' Leptothorax pacis'' (Kutter, 1945) *''

Leptothorax paraxenus ''Leptothorax'' is a genus of small ants with mainly Holarctic distributions. The genus is notable for its widespread social parasitism, i.e. they are dependent on the help of workers from other ant species during a part or the whole of their lif ...

'' Heinze & Alloway, 1992 *'' Leptothorax pocahontas'' (Buschinger, 1979) *'' Leptothorax retractus'' Francoeur, 1986 *'' Leptothorax scamni'' Ruzsky, 1905 *'' Leptothorax sphagnicola'' Francoeur, 1986 *'' Leptothorax wilsoni'' Heinze, 1989 *'' Leptothorax zhengi'' Zhou & Chen, 2011

References

Ant genera Taxa named by Gustav Mayr Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{myrmicinae-stub