Leptogenys sterops Bolton

Type location Ivory Coast (Bolton, 1975a: 261, illustrated, mandible shape only, worker); holotype worker and five paratype workers from Banco Forest (13.i.1963) and ORSTOM (one worker, 7.i.1963, W.L. Brown) (Bolton, 1975a) .

Bolton's description is at .

WORKER - large medium, TL 8.0-8.2 mm; propodeum and metapleurae sculptured. Mandibles without a lamelliform extension of the inner margin. Colour principally dark brown, appendages lighter, head and propodeum darker, black in places.

The photomontage of a paratype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0902594

Oxford University Museum specimens

Leptogenys sterops B Taylor det.

Gambia R W Goff

02.xii.2009 Abuko Nature Reserve 13°23'41" N 016°38'41" W

Hand collection

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The photomontage is of one of two workers from Gambia, Abuko Nature Reserve, 13°23'41" N 016°38'41" W, collected by Roy W Goff, 02.xii.2009.