The Ants of Africa
Genus Leptogenys
Leptogenys cryptica Bolton

Leptogenys cryptica Bolton

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Ghana (Bolton, 1975a: 286, not illustrated, worker); holotype worker and 4 paratype workers from CRIG; nesting in a rotten log, collected by Bolton himself (1.x.1970) .

Bolton's description is at {original description}.

WORKER - small species, TL 2.8 mm; head densely reticulate-punctate, pronotum sculptured. Eyes very small. Colour uniform yellow-brown to mid-brown.

{Leptogenys cryptica}The photomontage the holotype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=0902590

{Leptogenys cryptica}The photomontage of a worker from Cameroun is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=CASENT0317006

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