Leptogenys diminuta deceptrix

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

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Leptogenys diminuta deceptrix Forel, 1901 junior synonym of current valid taxon Leptogenys diminuta (Smith, 1857)

Leptogenys (Lobopelta) diminuta r. deceptrix Forel, 1901m: 46 (w.) INDIA. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: India: Coonoor (Daly), India: Coonoor (R.C. Wroughton), India: Darjeeling (R.C. Wroughton), India: Thana (R.C. Wroughton), India: Nilgiris (R.C. Wroughton), India: Orissa (Taylor), India: Assam (Smythies). Primary type depositories: MHNG, NHMB (perhaps also BMNH). Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 141, cites 3 worker syntypes in NHMB. 2) This taxon is based on specimens of Leptogenys diminuta Smith, 1857a, sensu Forel, 1900f: 312, misidentification.

As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1911e: 103
Subspecies of Leptogenys diminuta: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 33; Bolton, 1995b: 230; Bharti & Wachkoo, 2013c: 17 (in key); Bharti et al., 2016: 51 (error)
Junior synonym of Leptogenys diminuta: Xu & He, 2015: 138; Hamer et al., 2024: 179.

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.
Bharti, H.; Guénard, B.; Bharti, M.; Economo, E. P. 2016. An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 551:1-83. PDF
Bharti, H.; Wachkoo, A. A. 2013c. Two new species of the ant genus Leptogenys (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from India, with description of a plesiomorphic ergatogyne. Asian Myrmecology 5:11-19. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Forel, A. 1900f. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part VII. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13:303-332. PDF
Forel, A. 1901m. Formiciden des Naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg. Neue Calyptomyrmex-, Dacryon-, Podomyrma- und Echinopla-Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 18:43-82. PDF
Hamer, M. T.; Lee, J. H. C.; Tse, C. Y. L.; Silva, T. S. R.; Guénard, B. 2024. The Leptogenys Roger, 1861 (Formicidae, Ponerinae) of Hong Kong SAR with additional records from Guangdong, China. ZooKeys 1202:169-211. [online early] 10.3897/zookeys.1202.120214 PDF
Xu, Z.-H.; He, Q.-J. 2015. Taxonomic review of the ponerine ant genus Leptogenys Roger, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with a key to the Oriental species. Myrmecological News 21:137-161. PDF

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