Leptogenys longiceps Santschi

Type location Senegal (Leptogenys longiceps n. sp., Santschi, 1914b: 328, illustrated, worker) collected at Dakar by F. Silvestri, in 1913 no type images on Antweb (January 2015)

Worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1914d) description is at . Bolton's modern description (1975a) is at .

WORKER - small, TL 4.2-4.5 mm; mesopleuron completely sculptured. Median clypeal lobe very short and bluntly rounded. Gaster smooth and shining (colour not given) (Bolton, 1975a, not illustrated).

From Ghana, at Legon, savannah (several workers, D. Leston; Mkhize).

Oxford University Museum specimens

Leptogenys longiceps B Taylor det.

Senegal Tambacounda B Ndiaye

10.viii.2009 Bansifoukha 13°06'30"N 12°05'18" W

Bansifoukha 10-VIII-09 St15 Soudanian savannah, pitfall traps

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The photomontage is of a worker from Senegal, Bansifoukha; collector B Ndiaye.

The photomontage is of a worker from Ivory Coast, in the BMNH collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0281919