The Ants of Africa
Genus Leptogenys
Leptogenys testacea (Donisthorpe)

Leptogenys testacea (Donisthorpe)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Ghana (Microbolbos testacea, Donisthorpe, 1948f: 170, worker); holotype worker and 7 paratype workers from a single collection at CRIG, (A.H. Strickland, vii.1945)
soil-inhabiting (Bolton, 1975a) .


{Leptogenys testacea}Donisthorpe's (1948f) description is at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1975a) is at {original description}.

WORKER - small, TL 3.5-3.7 mm; apex of mandible with three teeth. Colour light brown, shining, legs and antennae lighter (Bolton, 1975a: 280, illustrated, mandible apex).


Leptogenys testaceaThe photomontage is of the holotype worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0902575


{Leptogenys testacea}The photomontage of a worker, from Ivory Coast is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0281915 where it is wrongly posted as Leptogenys guineensis.

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