The Ants of Africa
Genus Leptogenys
Leptogenys spandax Bolton

Leptogenys spandax Bolton

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Ghana (Bolton, 1975a: 279, illustrated, petiole only, worker); holotype worker and one paratype worker from CRIG (ant ecology sample, 24.ix.1966, D. Leston) (Bolton, 1975a) .

{Leptogenys spandax}Bolton's description is at {original description}.

WORKER - medium sized, TL 6.8 mm; apex of mandible with two teeth. Petiole in profile a thick scale, tapering dorsally. Brown, appendages yellow-brown.

Leptogenys spandaxThe photomontage is of the holotype worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0902577
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