The Ants of Africa
Genus Leptogenys
Leptogenys falcigera Roger

Leptogenys falcigera Roger

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Sri Lanka (Roger, 1861: 42, worker, not illustrated, worker) - see damaged type at http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0104059
junior synoym insularis (Leptogenys insularis F Smith, 1879: 675, worker, not illustrated; synonymy Wilson & Taylor, 1967: 30) type location Hawaii, Oahu, T Blackburn - see below.

Included for comparision, not known from mainland Africa.


Leptogenys falcigeraBolton's description is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 7.0-7.8 mm; densely shagreened with scattered large punctures; no erect hairs; pertiole in dorsal view as long as or longer than wide; lamelliform margin of clypeus narrow and translucent; outher margin of mandible convex throughout its length. Distribution wide-ranging in Asian and Pacific tropics


Leptogenys falcigera insularisThe photomontage is of the type insularis worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0102272

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