Leptothorax

Taxobox
name = "Leptothorax"


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hymenoptera
familia = Formicidae
subfamilia = Myrmicinae
genus = "Leptothorax"
genus_authority = Mayr, 1855

"Leptothorax" is a large genus of small ants with mainly Holarctic distribution. The genus is notable for its widespread social parasitism, i.e. they are dependant on the help of workers from other ant species during a part or the whole of their life cycles. It contains the following species:
* "Leptothorax acervorum"
* "Leptothorax affinis"
* "Leptothorax aguayoi"
* "Leptothorax alayoi"
* "Leptothorax albispinus"
* "Leptothorax alinae"
* "Leptothorax allardycei"
* "Leptothorax alpinus"
* "Leptothorax ambiguus"
* "Leptothorax anacanthus"
* "Leptothorax andrei"
* "Leptothorax androsanus"
* "Leptothorax anduzei"
* "Leptothorax anemicus"
* "Leptothorax angulatus"
* "Leptothorax angustulus"
* "Leptothorax annexus"
* "Leptothorax annibalis"
* "Leptothorax anodonta"
* "Leptothorax anodontoides"
* "Leptothorax antigoni"
* "Leptothorax arcanus"
* "Leptothorax archangelskiji"
* "Leptothorax arenarius"
* "Leptothorax argentinus"
* "Leptothorax argentipes"
* "Leptothorax arimensis"
* "Leptothorax arpini"
* "Leptothorax asper"
* "Leptothorax augusti"
* "Leptothorax auresianus"
* "Leptothorax aveli"
* "Leptothorax aztecus"
* "Leptothorax baeticus"
* "Leptothorax balchashensis"
* "Leptothorax buschingeri"
* "Leptothorax calderoni"
* "Leptothorax duloticus"
* "Leptothorax faberi"
* "Leptothorax gredleri"
* "Leptothorax minutissimus"
* "Leptothorax pacis"
* "Leptothorax recedens"
* "Leptothorax sphagnicolus"
* "Leptothorax unifasciatus"
* "Leptothorax wilsoni"