- Leptogenys in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 46; Mayr, 1862: 714 (in key) [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865: 14 [Poneridae].
- Leptogenys in Ponerinae, Leptogenyini: Forel, 1893b: 162; Forel, 1899b: 17; Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Emery, 1911e: 97; Arnold, 1915: 89; Forel, 1917: 238; Gallardo, 1918c: 84; Wheeler, 1922: 652; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 656; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 31; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78.
- Leptogenys in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1895l: 767; Forel, 1900f: 304; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Brown, 1963a: 3; Kempf, 1972b: 129; Jaffe, 1993: 8; Bolton, 1994: 164; Bolton, 2003: 163.
Junior synonyms
- Dorylozelus Forel, 1915
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Lobopelta
Mayr, 1862
Obsolete classification(s): Leptogenys (Lobopelta)
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Machaerogenys
Emery, 1911
Obsolete classification(s): Leptogenys (Machaerogenys)
- Microbolbos Donisthorpe, 1948
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Odontopelta
Emery, 1911
Obsolete classification(s): Leptogenys (Odontopelta)
- Prionogenys Emery, 1895
Genus Leptogenys references
Roger, 1863b: 19 (Lobopelta, Leptogenys catalogues); Mayr, 1863a: 426, 427 (Leptogenys, Lobopelta catalogues); Mayr, 1865: 14, 15 (Leptogenys, Lobopelta diagnoses); Mayr, 1867a: 89 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1879: 664 (Lobopelta species key); Cresson, 1887: 258 (U.S.A. catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1893: 43, 46 (Lobopelta, Leptogenys catalogues); Forel, 1900f: 304 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 52, 55 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma Leptogenys, Lobopelta species keys); Emery, 1911e: 97 (diagnosis, subgenera key, catalogue); Arnold, 1915: 89, 95 (diagnosis, South Africa Leptogenys (Leptogenys) & Leptogenys (Lobopelta) species keys); Mann, 1919: 298 (Papuasia Leptogenys (Leptogenys) species key); Mann, 1921: 426 (Fiji Leptogenys (Lobopelta) species key); Wheeler, 1922: 93, 786, 1010 (diagnosis, Afrotropical, Malagasy catalogues); Wheeler, 1923e: 14 (New World Leptogenys (Lobopelta) species key); Creighton, 1950a: 51 (North America Leptogenys (Lobopelta) species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 31 (Asia checklist); Wilson, 1958c: 113 (Melanesia & Moluccas species revision, key); Wilson, 1958c: 136 (New Caledonia species key); Kempf, 1972b: 129 (Neotropical catalogue); Alayo, 1974: 8 (Cuba species key); Bolton, 1975a: 239 (diagnosis, review of genus); Bolton, 1975a: 244 (Afrotropical species revision, key); Bolton, 1975a: 293 (Malagasy species key); Smith, 1979: 1343 (North America catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 32, 39 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 34, 64 (Australia, New Caledonia checklists); Trager & Johnson, 1988: 30 (U.S.A. species key); Brandão, 1991: 349 (Neotropical catalogue); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 229 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 41 (China species key); Shattuck, 1999: 189 (Australia synopsis); Xu, 2000a: 118 (China species key); Zhou, 2001a: 39 (China, Guangxi species key); Bolton, 2003: 163 (synopsis); Lattke, in Fernández, 2008a: 145 (Colombia species, review); Terayama, 2009: 115 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009: 133 (south-western Australia species key); Bakhtiar & Chiang, 2011: 46 (Sabah species, provisional key); Lattke, 2011: 139 (New World species revision, key); Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 154 (Fiji species key); Zhou et al., 2012: 886 (China species key); Bharti & Wachkoo, 2013c: (India species key); Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 92 (diagnosis, synoptic description, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations); Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2014: (Malagasy species revision, identification key, distribution maps); Xu & He, 2015: 137 (Oriental species key); Arimoto, 2017a: 79 (Leptogenys modiglianii species group revision, SE Asia); Sharaf et al., 2017: 1 (Arabian Peninsula species key); Cantone, 2017: 262 (brief male diagnosis); Wachkoo et al., 2018: 6 (Oriental chinensis-group species key); Arimoto & Yamane, 2018: 9 (chalybaea species group key), 25 (Oriental species key); Ramage et al., 2019: 6 (New Caledonia species key); Fernández & Guerrero, 2019: 523 (Colombia species key).
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