Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype ergatoid queens (not workers) (number not stated). Primary type localities: New Caledonia: Vallée de la Ngoi (
F. Sarasin & J. Roux), New Caledonia: Yaté (
F. Sarasin & J. Roux). Primary type depositories:
MSNG,
NHMB.
Type notes:
1)
Wilson, 1958c: 136, identified these as ergatoid queens of
Leptogenys acutangula (as
Emery, 1914f: 399, already suspected). 2)
Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 142, cites 1 queen syntype in
NHMB as ‘holotype’.