Leptogenys crustosa Santschi

Type location Guinea (Santschi, 1914d: 326, illustrated, worker, synonymy by Bolton, 1975a:251) from Conakry, 8.viii.1933, F Silvestri - no images on Antweb (January 2015)
junior synonyms
africanus (Leptogenys (Leptogenys) africanus sp. nov., Weber, 1942a: 47, illustrated) from South Sudan, Imatong Mts, 5.viii.1939, N A Weber - see below.
rufipes (Leptogenys (Leptigneys) conradti var.  rufipes, Santschi, 1937g: 75, worker) from Gabon, Samkita, Faure - see below
Worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1914d) description is at .

Santschi (1937g) had rufipes n. v. (of L. conradti) - in the type form, the mandibles, scapes and legs are brownish, here the appendages and the end of the gaster are red with a brown tinge; Gabon, Samkita, collector F Faure; given as queen but noted as a worker by Bolton (1975a). Weber's (1942a) description of africanus is at . Bolton's modern description (1975a) is at .

WORKER - medium size, TL 7.3-9.1 mm; Posterodorsal angle of petiole node in profile drawn out into a blunt spine. Sculpturation of head and alitrunk rugose, overlaid by a fine, dense puncturation. First gastral tergite coarsely reticulate. Colour black, appendages red-brown or orange-brown (Bolton, 1975a: 251, illustrated, lateral petiole only).

Syntype workers from Guinea, at Conakry (F. Silvestri, 8.viii.1913, in Santschi, 1914b), also known from several collections from Cameroun, no location (G. Terron); Zaïre and eastwards; no bionomic details (Bolton, 1975a). Sudan location was in forest.

The photomontage of the holotype of rufipes is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=0915219.

The photomontage is of a cotype of Leptogenys crustosa africanus from Sudan. The original photographs, together with enlarged images, are from the MCZ, Harvard University, website at - MCZ link.