Leptogenys elegans Bolton

Type location Nigeria (Bolton, 1975a: 265, illustrated, head, plus eye shape); holotype worker and two paratype workers were collected by Bolton from the stump of a rotten tree branch at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre, 10.ix.1969 .

Bolton's description is at .

Nigeria specimen (Taylor, 1976: 23). WORKER. TL 4.50-4.90 mm, HL 0.96-1.02, HW 0.68-0.72, SL 0.89-0.94, PW 0.58-0.62
Colour black, extremities yellow-brown, shiny. Coarsely sculptured with fovea smaller on head than elsewhere on body. Collection as the holotype by B. Bolton.

Observed foraging on native trees and cocoa in Ghana, including pkd collections, at Pankese Cocoa Station (1 worker, C.A. Collingwood, 10.ix.1969), Bunso (6 workers by pkd, 7 and 30.vii.1969), CRIG (1 worker, ant ecology sample, 8.x.1966) and Asikaisu (1 worker, ant ecology sample, 9.ix.1969) (all by D. Leston).

Also from Ivory Coast, at Plantation Niecky, 40 km west of Abidjan (5 workers, W.L. Brown, 14.i.1963); and Cameroun at Byime-Assi (G. Terron) (all above in Bolton, 1975a).

The photomontage of the holotype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0902602

Oxford University Museum specimens

Leptogenys elegans B Taylor det.	Liberia E Poirier Liabala PF 14	2.iv.2013 Nimba County 07°31’06" N 08°35’34" E	Pitfall trap Secondary forest 473 m asl	1
Leptogenys elegans B Taylor det. Male	Gabon Y Braet Gabon 236	9-25.vi.2006 Pongara 00°34' N 09°19' E	Pointe Wingombe; malaise trap under trees	1

The photomontage is of a worker from Liberia, Liabala; collector E Poiriet (Liabala PF 14).

The photomontage is of a male from Gabon; Pongara National Park, Pointe Wingombe; collector Yves Braet.
Although the male is unreported and undescribed, the petiole matches that of the worker and, so, I have placed this specimen here.