Leptogenys coerulescens

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

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Leptogenys coerulescens Emery, 1895 valid

Leptogenys coerulescens Emery, 1895g: 339 (w.) MADAGASCAR. Malagasy.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2014: 42). Primary type locality: lectotype Madagascar: Diego Suarez (= Antsiranana), iv.-viii.1893 (Ch. Alluaud). Primary type depository: MSNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0102027 (lectotype). Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 2 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MSNG.

Lectotype designation: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2014: 42.
Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2014: 44 (eq.)
Status as species: Emery, 1911e: 102; Wheeler, 1922: 1012; Bolton, 1975a: 296; Bolton, 1995b: 230; Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2014: 42 (redescription).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1975a. A revision of the ant genus Leptogenys Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian region with a review of the Malagasy species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 31:235-305. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1895g. Mission scientifique de M. Ch. Alluaud dans le territoire de Diego-Suarez (Madagascar-nord) (Avril-août 1893). Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:336-345. PDF
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Rakotonirina, J. C.; Fisher, B. L. 2014. Revision of the Malagasy ponerine ants of the genus Leptogenys Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3836 (1):1-163. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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