Leptogenys acutirostris

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Leptogenys acutirostris Santschi, 1912 valid

Leptogenys saussurei st. acutirostris Santschi, 1912b: 150 (w.) MADAGASCAR. Malagasy.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Madagascar: (no further data) (E. Le Moult). Primary type depository: NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0101130. Type notes: Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 141, reports “only head and prothorax”.

Subspecies of Leptogenys saussurei: Wheeler, 1922: 1012.
Status as species: Bolton, 1975a: 297; Bolton, 1995b: 229; Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2014: 116 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Leptogenys saussurei acutirostris

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1973b. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel. Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)23:122-152.
Bolton, B. 1975a. A revision of the ant genus Leptogenys Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian region with a review of the Malagasy species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 31:235-305. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Rakotonirina, J. C.; Fisher, B. L. 2014. Revision of the Malagasy ponerine ants of the genus Leptogenys Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3836 (1):1-163. PDF
Santschi, F. 1912b. Fourmis d'Afrique et de Madagascar. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 56:150-167. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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