Leptogenys camerunensis Stitz

Type location Cameroun (Leptogenys camerunensis n. sp., Stitz, 1910: 130, worker), collected at Barombistation by Preuss - see below
unavailable names
angusticeps (Leptogenys Stuhlmanni Mayr r. camerunensis Stiz v. angusticpes n. var., Forel, 1916: 399, worker) from Zaïre, collected by Kohl, at St Gabriel - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0907339
opalescens (Wheeler, 1922: 94, worker, as "stuhlmanni Mayr ssp camerunensis var (Stitz) var opalescens, from stomachs of toads] from Zaïre - see below
no collection details but worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Stitz's (1910) description is at . Forel's (1916) description of angusticeps is at . Bolton's modern description (1975a) is at .

WORKER - large species, TL 11.0-12.0, with very long antennal scapes. Alitrunk without sculpture dorsally and only with cross-ribbing at meso-metapleural suture laterally. Colour red-brown or brown, appendages lighter, head and alitrunk with blue or violet opalescence (Bolton, 1975a: 256, illustrated, mandible, full-face view and petiole profile).

Modern collection from Cameroun, no location (G. Terron).

The photomontage of a cotype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0907338.

The photomontage is collated from the AMNH Congo Expedition website. The photographs of the holotype specimen (labelled as Leptogenys stuhlmanni) were taken by Brian Fisher as part of the VCA project at the California Academy of Sciences. (No images on Antweb, January 2015)