Protonym: Leptomyrmex contractus
Authorship Donisthorpe, 1947c: 586
Forms w.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea)
Primary type information Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: K.B. Mission, Milne Bay, 5.iii.1944 (K.V. Krombein). Primary type depositories: BMNH, USNM.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Leptomyrmex contractus Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Leptomyrmex melanoticus Wheeler, 1934
Original combination