The Ants of Africa
Genus Leptogenys Leptogenys falcigera Roger
Leptogenys falcigera Roger
Type location Sri Lanka
(Roger, 1861: 42, worker, not illustrated, worker) - see damaged type
at http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0104059
junior synoym insularis (Leptogenys insularis F Smith, 1879: 675, worker, not illustrated; synonymy Wilson & Taylor, 1967: 30) type location Hawaii, Oahu, T Blackburn - see below.
Included for comparision, not known from mainland Africa.
Bolton's
description is at .
WORKER
- TL 7.0-7.8 mm; densely shagreened with scattered large punctures; no
erect hairs; pertiole in dorsal view as long as or longer than wide;
lamelliform margin of clypeus narrow and translucent; outher margin of
mandible convex throughout its length. Distribution wide-ranging in
Asian and Pacific tropics