Leptogenys zapyxis Bolton

Type location Ghana (Bolton, 1975a: 264, illustrated, worker); the holotype worker and one paratype worker were collected at Mt. Atewa (22.x.1968, C. A. Collingwood).
Other Ghana collections were from CRIG (total 11 workers, from ant ecology samples, 2.vii and 3.viii.1966, D. Leston; 26.vi.1970, from a wet-rotten log, B. Bolton) .

Bolton's description is at .

WORKER - large medium species, TL 8.1-9.0 mm; propodeum and metapleuron unsculptured. Inner margin of mandible extended by a convex, semi-translucent lamella.

Specimens in the CRIN collection probably were from CRI Ghana.

The photomontage of the holotype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0902595