The Ants of Africa
Genus Leptogenys
Leptogenys amon Bolton

Leptogenys amon Bolton

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Cameroun (Bolton, 1975a: 283, illustrated head only, worker); from Ototomo, collection by G. Terron, 20.v.1968; holotype worker only known - see below .


{Leptogenys amon}Bolton's description is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 5.2 mm; distinguished by the long, narrow head and circumocular grooves, and long narrow petiole. Colour medium brown, gaster lighter, appendages a dark yellow-brown.


Leptogenys amonThe photomontage is of the holotype worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0902586


Leptogenys amonThe photomontage of a worker from Gabon is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0317004

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