Leptogenys diminuta nitidiceps

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

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Leptogenys diminuta nitidiceps Chapman & Capco, 1951 valid

Leptogenys (Lobopelta) diminuta var. nitidiceps Chapman & Capco, 1951: 34 (w.) INDIA (Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, “Sivalks”, "Himalaya”), MYANMAR. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: India: Dehra Dun (Smythies), India: Himalaya (Smythies), India: Poona (R.C. Wroughton), India: Sivalks (Rogers), Myanmar (“Burma”): Palon (L. Fea). Primary type depository: MHNG (perhaps also BMNH). Type notes: Type localities are based on Leptogenys laeviceps Smith, 1857a, sensu Forel, 1900f: 312, misidentification (the basis for the name nitidiceps in both Emery, 1911e: 103, and Chapman & Capco, 1951: 34).

[First available use of Leptogenys diminuta sarasinorum nitidiceps Emery, 1911e; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name (Bolton, 1995b: 232).]
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1913f: 661.

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
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. 1913f. Quelques fourmis des Indes, du Japon et d'Afrique. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 21:659-673. PDF

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