The Ants of Africa
Genus Leptogenys
Leptogenys guineensis Santschi

Leptogenys guineensis Santschi

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Guinea (Leptogenys (Lobopelta) guineensis n. sp., Santschi, 1914d: 329, illustrated, worker) collected at Mamou by F. Silvestri, in 1913 - see below
Worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

{Leptogenys guineensis} {Leptogenys guineensis}Santschi's (1914b) description is at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1975a) is at {original description}.

WORKER - small, TL 4.3-4.5 mm; apex of mandible with two teeth. Petiole in profile not a dorsally tapered thick scale. Colour brown, glossy, appendages lighter (Bolton, 1975a: 278, illustrated, head only).

From Ghana, at Mt. Atewa and Tafo (C. A. Collingwood; D. Leston) (Bolton, 1975a).

{Leptogenys guineensis}The photomontage of the holotype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0915228.

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