The Ants of Africa
Genus Leptogenys
Leptogenys trilobata Santschi

Leptogenys trilobata Santschi

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Zaïre (Santschi, 1924b: 196, illustrated, worker); holotype worker from Tschela (2.xi.1920, H. Schouteden) .


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WORKER - small medium, TL 5.4-5.6 mm; dorsum of head rugose, dorsum of alitrunk not densely sculptured, mostly shining. Median clypeal lobe truncated apically. Colour black with appendages light brown (Bolton, 1975a: 273, illustrated, head only).

Also from Cameroun, at Yolé Massif (G. Terron), no collection details but apparently only a single worker (Bolton, 1975a).


Leptogenys trilobataThe photomontage of the holotype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=rmcaent000017736

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