Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Solomon Is: Malaita I., nr Fourafi (
W.M. Mann). Primary type depository:
MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paratype worker, 1 paratype ergatoid queen. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository:
MCZC.
Type notes:
1) This taxon is based on “a small series” of
Leptogenys laeviceps Smith, 1857a,
sensu Mann, 1919: 300, misidentification. 2) The remainder of Mann’s original series is perhaps in
USNM.