The Ants of Africa
Genus Leptogenys
Leptogenys nuserra Bolton

Leptogenys nuserra Bolton

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Ghana (Bolton, 1975a: 269, worker, not illustrated) .

Holotype worker and queen from Mt. Atewa, ant ecology sample, 29.vii.1966, D. Leston); other collections at CRIG (22.vii and 18.x.1966), Mt. Atewa (pkd, 8.viii.1969), Sajimasi (on trunk, 25.vii.1969) (all D. Leston) (Bolton, 1975a). Also found (16 workers) in leaf litter samples from five sites- Kade and Nankasi under cocoa, Atewa Forest Reserve (two) and Bunso secondary primary forest, at dates in 1992, by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).


Bolton's description is at {original description}.

WORKER - small, TL 4.0 mm; upper halves of sides of petiole sulcate. Dorsum of head deeply punctate. Pronotum sculptured. Relatively short scapes. Colour black; legs, mandibles and scapes brown; funiculi yellow-brown.

Otherwise known from the Ivory Coast, at Banco Forest, 6 workers and 1 female (8.i.1963, W.L. Brown) (Bolton, 1975a).


{Leptogenys nuserra}The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0902604


{Leptogenys nuserra}The photomontage of a worker from Ghana is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0270563

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