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039AC90AF502FFECCEAAFEA3D1D3B43B.text	039AC90AF502FFECCEAAFEA3D1D3B43B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Leptanilla ujjalai Saroj & Mandi & Dubey 2022	<div><p>Leptanilla ujjalai sp. nov.</p><p>http://zoobank.org/ 1EB13968-91C8-401B-8BA5- 2B4E222FE19B</p><p>(Figs. 1-3)</p><p>Measurements. Worker holotype, TL 1.71 mm; HL 0.4 mm; HW 0.31 mm; MaL 0.18 mm; SL 0.24 mm; WL 0.52 mm; PW 0.22 mm; PTL 0.12 mm; PTW 0.12 mm; PTH 0.14 mm (excluding sting); PTNL 0.14mm; PPTL 0.09 mm; PPTW 0.12 mm; PPTH 0.18 mm; PPTNL 0.12 mm; CI 79, SI 76, MaI 58, PI 93, PPI 123, PPHI 66.</p><p>Paratypes (Worker). TL 1.58-1.71mm; HL 0.38-0.40 mm; HW 0.30-0.32 mm; MaL 0.16- 0.18 mm; SL 0.24-0.25 mm; WL 0.51-0.54 mm; PW 0.21-0.22 mm; PTL 0.11-0.12 mm; PTH 0.13- 0.14 mm; PTNL 0.13-0.15 mm; PTW 0.10-0.12 mm; PPTH 0.17-0.19 mm; PPTL 0.08-0.09 mm; PPTNL 0.11-0.12 mm; PPTW 0.10-0.12 mm; CI 78-80; SI 76-80; MaI 53-60; PI 91-93; PPI 125- 133; PPHI 59-66. (Eight paratypes examined).</p><p>Head: Longer than wide, posterior margin widely concave in full face view, slightly broader than anterior margin, lateral margins weakly convex; postero-lateral angles smoothly curved; clypeus anteriorly produced as a distinct lobe with straight anterior margin (Fig. 3B); posterior margin of clypeus not separated by suture; mandibles with four teeth (Fig. 1C), outer margin curved; masticatory margin long, with three unequal teeth placed at more or less equal distance; apical tooth long, curved, acute, sub-apical tooth minute but distinct, sub-basal tooth acute and larger than sub-apical one; two small denticles between sub-apical and sub-basal teeth; basal tooth large, broad and truncate apically, placed on basal margin (Figs. 1D &amp; 1E); a small ridge from the base of sub-basal tooth diagonally run towards exterior mandibular articulation, which separates the apex of mandible from the base (Fig. 3B); palp formula 2,1; antennal furrows oval shaped with base narrow; scape reaching a little above midline of head, running short of posterior margin of head by 3/4 th its length; pedicel comparatively narrow, pedicel and F2 subequal, F1 longer than F2, F3 to F9 broader, club longer than preceding two segments combined; eyes absent.</p><p>Thorax: Mesosoma (Figs 1A, 3A) narrower and subequal to gaster; pronotum convex, wider than rest of mesosoma in dorsal view, sides weakly convex, posteriorly constricted; pro-meso-notum weakly convex above; pro-meso-notal suture distinct; meso-meta-notal suture absent; dorsum of propodeum descending to apex with a smooth curve, without distinct separation of declivity from dorsal face; meso-metanotum more or less flat and capsule like in dorsal view; coxae, femora and tibiae swollen; fore-basi-tarsus sickle shaped (Fig. 2B); hind tibial spur thick.</p><p>Gaster: Petiole as long as braod and distinctly longer than postpetiole, sides nearly parallel; anterior margin straight; petiole with a very thin, narrow subpetiolar lamella at anterior half, subpetiolar process lamellate and denticulate (Fig. 2A), four setae arranged in a row on it; postpetiole distinctly broader than long, sides curved; sternal portion of postpetiole separated from tergal part by a distinct groove and anterior margin making a deep concavity at this groove; tergal height of postpetiole less than that of sternum; spiracles of petiole and postpetiole situated on anterior margin, petolar spiracle wider than post petiolar spiracle (Fig. 3C). Metasoma flat, oval, antero-lateral margins smoothly round and narrowly attached to post petiole; first tergite covers more than half of dorsum; sting exserted.</p><p>Sculpture and colour: Whole body smooth and shining with dense, long and short, suberect and decumbent pilosity all over. Fine punctation visible on antennae, anterior neck of pronotum, legs and ventral part of petiole and post petiole. Uniform yellowish with head, gaster and joints slightly darker.</p><p>HOLOTYPE: Worker, INDIA: West Bengal, Kalimpong district,  Neora valley National Park, 27°03ʹ572ʺN, 088°46ʹ100ʺE, 2014m alt., 22.x.2019, S. Bhattacharya (NZC, ZSI, Kolkata; Reg. no.24034/H3)  .  PARATYPES: Eight workers. with same data as that of the holotype (Deposited in NZC, ZSI, Kolkata; Reg. nos. 24035/ H3-24042/H3) .</p><p>Remarks: Paratypes share the characters same as that of holotypes with some variations: denticles between teeth on mandible vary from one to two and sometimes not visible in some specimens. In some specimens sub petiolar lamella clearly visible with sharp spiniform teeth (Fig. 2B) with ventral setae; postpetiolar sternal height also varies in that some times tergum higher than sternum, equal to sternum or lower than sternum.</p><p>Etymology: The species is named after Sri. Ujjal Ghosh, Chief Coservator of Forests, Wildlife North, West Bengal, recognising his conservation efforts in the type locality.</p><p>Diagnosis: Workers of the new species have unique combination of characters from other species of the genera in having the mandible subtriangular (linear in most of the species) with four teeth. First three teeth on masticatory margin and the largest truncate tooth on basal margin; anterior clypeal margin with a truncate apical lobe, subpetiolar process lamellate and denticulate; petiolar spiracle larger than post petiolar spiracle; 3rd abdominal tergum weakly narrow in its anterior part and post petiole with equal width at anterior and posterior margin. It differs from other two Indian species, in having four distinct teeth on masticatory margins (Figs 1C, 3B) against three teeth in  L. escheri and  L. lamellata .; anterior clypeal margin transverse (anterior clypeal margin concave and bilobed in  L. escheri and  L. lamellata), subpetiolar process lamellate and denticulate (subpetiolar process not denticulate in  L. escheri and  L. lamellata).  L. ujjalai comes close to  L. tanakai Urbani from Japan in that abdominal tergite anteriorly constricted, mandibles with four teeth and the basal mandibular teeth distinct; but it differs from  L. tanakai in postpetiole width equal in anterior and posterior margin, (post petiole trapezium shaped in  L. tanakai) post petiole not truncated posteriorly, dorsal face of post petiole smoothly passing to posterior face without any edge in  ujjalai (post petiole posteriorly truncated, posterior margin of post petiole delimited by an edge between dorsal and posterior face in  tanakai).  Leptanilla ujjalai resembles  L. japonica Urbani described from Japan, in the number of mandibular teeth; rectilinear dorsal profile, dorsum of propodeum descending to apex with a smooth curve without a difined declivity, hair and colour pattern, but differs in the subtriangular mandibles (Figs. 1D, 1E), F3 to F9 transverse, anteriorly straight petiole and post petiole, the post petiole width equal on anterior and posterior sides (Fig. 1A) and anterior margin of first gastral tergite narrowly attached to post petiole (in  japonica, mandibles nearly linear, F3 transverse, F4 to club, gradually increasing length, anterior margins of petiole and post petiole concave, the post petiole broader posteriorly than anteriorly and first gastral tergite broadly attached to post petiole).  L. ujjalai shows affinities to  L. hypodracos Wong and Guénard from Singapore in presence of basal tooth on mandibles and anterior margin of clypeus straight (concave to straight in  hypodracos). But it differs from  hypodracos in presence of four teeth on mandible (only three teeth in  hypodracos), basal tooth truncate (basl tooth sharp in  hypodracos); petiole as long as wide and post petiole wider than long (petiole twice its width and post petiole longer than wide in  hypodracos).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039AC90AF502FFECCEAAFEA3D1D3B43B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Saroj, Sheela;Mandi, Arnab;Dubey, Anil Kumar	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
039AC90AF506FFEDCEAAFE03D4AFB65B.text	039AC90AF506FFEDCEAAFE03D4AFB65B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Leptanillinae Saroj & Mandi & Dubey 2022	<div><p>Key to Oriental  Leptanillinae based on workers (Modified from Leong et al 2018)</p><p>1) Masticatory margin of mandible with 2 teeth.. ............................................................................2</p><p>- Masticatory margin of mandible with 3 or more teeth.................................................................... 3</p><p>2) Anterolateral lobes of clypeus present. 3rd antennal segment with a distinct basal peduncle; dorsal view of petiolar node with arched anterior margin; promesonotal suture narrow (Indonesia) ..................................  L. kebunraya Yamane &amp; Ito</p><p>- Anterolateral lobes of clypeus absent. 3rd antennal segment without distinct basal peduncle; dorsal view of petiolar node rectangular; promesonotal suture wide (Malaysia).................  L. butteli Forel</p><p>3) Masticatory margin of mandible with 4 teeth.. ............................................................................4</p><p>- Masticatory margin of mandible with 3 teeth.... ............................................................................6</p><p>4) In full face view 3rd abdominal tergum strongly narrow in its anterior part; basal tooth of masticatory margin of mandible distinct........................5</p><p>- In full face view 3rd abdominal tergum weakly narrow in its anterior part; basal tooth of masticatory margin of mandible very small and difficult to distinguish (Japan) ........................................... ....................................  L. japonica Baroni Urbani</p><p>5) Post petiole trapezium shaped and posteriorly truncated (Japan) ..........  L. tanakai Baroni Urbani</p><p>- post petiole with equal width at anterior and posterior margin; posteriorly not truncate (India) ..... ..................................................  L. ujjalai sp. nov.</p><p>6) Metanotal groove present ..............................7</p><p>- Metanotal groove absent..................................8</p><p>7) In full-face view head approximately rectangular; clypeus not protruding, with anterior margin roundly convex; in profile, dorsum of petiole almost straight; in dorsal view post petiolar node much wider than petiolar node. Smaller species; HW: ca. 0.180 mm (China) .................................. ............................  L. hunanensis Tang, Li &amp; Chen</p><p>- In full-face view head distinctly narrowed anteriorly; clypeus protruding, with anterior margin concave; in profile, dorsum of petiole roundly convex; in dorsal view post petiolar node as wide as petiolar node. Larger species; HW: ca. 0.370 mm (China) ..................  L. kunmingensis Xu &amp; Zhang</p><p>8) Anterior margin of clypeus more or less straight or weakly to strongly convex............................. 9</p><p>- Anterior margin of clypeus medially incised, bilobed.............................................................. 15</p><p>9) Clypeus not protruding anteriorly, and with straight or weakly convex anterior clypeal lobe .. .......................................................................... 10</p><p>- Clypeus slightly or strongly protruding anteriorly, and with distinctly convex anterior clypeal lobe...................................................................13</p><p>10) Ventral margin of petiolar sternite in lateral view without well developed projection (Japan). ......................................  L. kubotai Baroni Urbani</p><p>- Ventral margin of petiolar sternite in lateral view with well developed and convex projection..... 11</p><p>11) Petiolar node distinctly wider than long (PI ≥</p><p>138) .................................................................. 12</p><p>- Petiolar node distinctly longer than wide (PI ≤ ca. 81) (Japan) ...............  L. morimotoi Yasumatsu</p><p>12) Post petiolar node wider than long (PPI = 163–</p><p>171). Larger species; HW: ca. 0.235 mm (China) ................................................  L. yunnanensis Xu</p><p>- Post petiolar node almost as long as wide (PPI =</p><p>88). Smaller species; HW: ca. 0.140 mm (Japan)  L. okinawensis Terayama</p><p>13) Larger species, with petiole longer than 0.13 mm (Sri Lanka) .........  L. besucheti Baroni Urbani</p><p>- Smaller species, with petiole shorter than 0.10 mm ...................................................................14</p><p>14) Ventral margin of petiolar sternite with triangular projection. Subpetiolar process absent. PPI = 122–138; CI ≥ 82; PI = 111–125 (Nepal) ......... ..................................  L. buddhista Baroni Urbani</p><p>- Ventral margin of petiolar sternite with sub-circular projection. Subpetiolar process present as a small and hook like spine. PPI = 80–86; CI ≤ 74; PI = 117–124 (China)........................................... ........  L. macauensis Leong, Yamane and Guénard</p><p>15) Petiole in dorsal view with sharp and protruding anterolateral corners, with well concave anterior margin........................................................ 16</p><p>- Petiole in dorsal view with blunt and non-protruding anterolateral corners, with slightly concave to convex anterior margin ................................ 17</p><p>16) Petiolar node almost twice as long as wide (PI = 60); post petiolar node almost as wide as long (PPI = 90); propodeal dorsum and declivity in lateral view meeting at an angular corner; masticatory margin of mandibles with a long and well-defined basal tooth (Singapore) ........................................ ..........................  L. hypodracos Wong &amp; Guénard</p><p>- Petiolar node almost as long as wide (PI = 82–</p><p>100); post petiolar node distinctly wider than long (PPI = 133–137); propodeal dorsum and declivity in lateral view meeting at a rather rounded corner; masticatory margin of mandibles without a long and well-defined basal tooth (Indonesia) ............. .....................................  L. clypeata Yamane &amp; Ito</p><p>17) Anterior margin of clypeal disc almost touching the lower level of antennal insertion, with shallowly notched anterior lobe (Taiwan) .................. .........  L. taiwanensis Ogata, Terayama &amp; Masuko</p><p>- Anterior margin of clypeal disc exceeding the lower level of antennal insertion with distinctly bilobed anterior lobe ........................................18</p><p>18) Posterior margin of head deeply concave in full-face view ................................................... 19</p><p>- Posterior margin of head almost straight in full-face view ..........................................................20</p><p>19) Petiolar node rectangular with slightly concave anterior margin in dorsal view; anterior distinctly shorter than posterior margin. Smaller species; HW: ca. 0.155 mm (Japan) .................................. ...................................  L. oceanica Baroni Urbani</p><p>- Petiolar node square with straight anterior margin in dorsal view; anterior margin as long as posterior margin. Larger species; HW: ca. 0.29 mm. (India)....................  L. lamellata Bharti &amp; Kumar</p><p>20) Petiole sternite in lateral view distinctly protruding, with ventral margin bluntly angulate...... .......................................................................... 21</p><p>- Petiole sternite in lateral view indistinctly protruding, with ventral margin almost straight (Thailand) ..................................  L. thai Baroni Urbani</p><p>21) Anterolateral corners of petiole roundly convex in dorsal view HW: ca. 0.245 mm (Singapore).... .................................................  L. havilandi Forel</p><p>- Anterolateral corners of petiole forming a small and sharp angle in dorsal view HW: ca. 0.280 mm (India)................................................................... ................................................  L. escheri (Kutter)</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039AC90AF506FFEDCEAAFE03D4AFB65B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Saroj, Sheela;Mandi, Arnab;Dubey, Anil Kumar	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
