Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: India: Dehra Dun (
Smythies), India: Himalaya (
Smythies), India: Poona (
R.C. Wroughton), India: Sivalks (
Rogers), Myanmar (“Burma”): Palon (
L. Fea). Primary type depository:
MHNG (perhaps also
BMNH).
Type notes:
Type localities are based on
Leptogenys laeviceps Smith, 1857a,
sensu Forel, 1900f: 312, misidentification (the basis for the name
nitidiceps in both
Emery, 1911e: 103, and
Chapman & Capco, 1951: 34).