The Ants of Africa
Genus Leptogenys
Leptogenys camerunensis Stitz

Leptogenys camerunensis Stitz

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} 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) .


{Leptogenys camerunensis}Stitz's (1910) description is at {original description}. Forel's (1916) description of angusticeps is at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1975a) is at {original description}.


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).


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


{Leptogenys camerunensis}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)

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