Leptogenys mengzii
Xu, 2000
valid
Leptogenys mengzii
Xu, 2000a:
124, figs. 45-52 (w.eq.)
CHINA (Yunnan).
Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: China: Yunnan, Menghai County, Meng’a Town, 1600 m., 9.ix.1997, No. A97-2249, deciduous broadleaf forest (Z. Xu). Type-depository: SFCY.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 25 paratype workers, 3 paratype ergatoid queens. Paratype-localities: 8 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 1 paratype queen with same data as holotype but No.A97-2250, 2 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen Yunnan, Mengla County, Menglun Town, Cuipingfeng, 660 m., 10.viii.1997, No. A97-1176, karst monsoon forest (G. Zeng), 7 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen with same data as last but 17.iii.1998, No. A98-945 (G. Zeng), 8 paratype workers Yunnan, Jinghong County, Guanping, 1120 m., 5.iii.1998, No. A98-72, mountain rainforest (T. Liu). Paratype-depository: SFCY.
- Status as species: Zhou & Ran, 2010: 106; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 59; Zhou et al., 2012: 888 (in key); Xu & He, 2015: 158 (in key); Arimoto & Yamane, 2018: 29 (in key).
Citations
- Arimoto, K.; Yamane, S. 2018. Taxonomy of the Leptogenys chalybaea species group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ponerinae) from Southeast Asia. Asian Myrmecology 10:31 pp. e010008. 10.20362/am.010008 PDF
- Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. PDF
- Xu, Z.-H. 2000a. Five new species and one new record of the ant genus Leptogenys Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Yunnan Province, China. Entomologia Sinica 7:117-126.
- Xu, Z.-H.; He, Q.-J. 2015. Taxonomic review of the ponerine ant genus Leptogenys Roger, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with a key to the Oriental species. Myrmecological News 21:137-161. PDF
- Zhou, S.; Chen, Y.; Chen, Z.; Zhou, P.; Ban, D.; Huang, M. 2012. Two new species of the genus Leptogenys from Guangxi, China (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 59:885-892. PDF
- Zhou, S.; Ran, H. 2010. Checklist of poneromorph subfamilies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in China. Journal of Guangxi Normal University (Natural Science Edition) 28 (4):101-113.