Protonym: Leptomyrmex pallens
Authorship Emery, 1883: 147, fig.
Forms w.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality NEW CALEDONIA
Primary type information Primary type material: 5 syntype workers. Primary type locality: New Caledonia: (no further data) (E. Léveillé). Primary type depository: MSNG.
Type notes 1) Shattuck, 1994: 119, cites 1 worker syntype in USNM, “without locality data”. 2) Lucky & Ward, 2010: 44, cite 2 worker syntypes but name Gambey as collector, whereas Emery, 1883 (in introduction, p. 145) implies that the collector is E. Léveillé.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Leptomyrmex pallens Species Valid Original combination