The Ants of Africa
Genus Leptogenys
Leptogenys pavesii Emery
{Leptogenys pavesii}

Leptogenys pavesii Emery

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Somalia (Emery, 1892a: 111, worker); subspecies sericeus from Sudan (Weber, 1942a: 46, worker); worker only described (Bolton, 1975a) .

Emery's (1892a) description is at {original description}. Weber's (1942a) brief description of sericeus is at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1975a) is at {original description}.

WORKER - medium sized, TL 6.8-7.6 mm; elongate linear curved mandibles which do not close against the clypeus; sculpture all over of dense shagreening; and dense, greyish pruinose pubescence (Bolton, 1975a: 255, illustrated, anterior head and left mandible).

Regraded as a tramp species, known from Cameroun, collector G. Terron, no location (Bolton, 1975a).

{Leptogenys pavesii sericeus}The photomontage is of a cotype of Leptogenys pavesii sericeus from Sudan. The original photographs, together with enlarged images, are from the MCZ, Harvard University, website at - MCZ link.

{short description of image}The photomontage is of a specimen from Somalia, collected from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=sam-hym-c002509..
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