Leptogenys violacea

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

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Leptogenys violacea Donisthorpe, 1942 valid

Leptogenys (Lobopelta) violacea Donisthorpe, 1942f: 705 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 8 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Waigeu I., Camp Nok, 2500 ft, v.1938, tube 38 (L.E. Cheesman). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC.

Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1943e: 444; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 39; Wilson, 1958c: 135; Bolton, 1995b: 234.

Citations

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
Donisthorpe, H. 1942f. New species of ants (Hym., Formicidae) from the Gold Coast, Borneo, Celebes, New Guinea and New Hebrides. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)9:701-709. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1943e. The ants (Hym., Formicidae) of Waigeu Island, North Dutch New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)10:433-475. PDF
Wilson, E. O. 1958c. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. I. The tribe Leptogenyini. II. The tribes Amblyoponini and Platythyreini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:101-153. PDF

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