Malagasy: Seychelles > Formicidae > Ponerinae > Leptogenys > Leptogenys maxillosa
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Species: Leptogenys maxillosa

Name Status: Valid Name

Taxonomic Hierarchy:

Subfamily: Ponerinae Genus: Leptogenys

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Ponera maxillosa Smith, 1858a PDF: 93 (w.m.) MAURITIUS. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Combination in Leptogenys: Roger, 1861a PDF: 43.

Senior synonym of Leptogenys falcata: Forel, 1901m PDF: 46; Bolton, 1975a PDF: 254; of Leptogenys cribrata, Leptogenys vinsonnella: Bolton, 1975a PDF: 254.

Distribution:

Reference for Kenya if not type: Mpala Res. Centre

Notes:

Caste of types: (w, m)

Taxon Page Author History

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Forel,A., 1907:
[[ worker ]].
Fundnotizen: Ste. Marie de Madagascar.
Moheli (Comoren). Von Reunion bekannt.

Forel, A., 1912:
[[ worker ]] (var. vinsonella Dut.). Seychelles: Dennis Island.

Forel, A., 1895:
- Cette variete qui m'a ete envoyee d'abord par M. Vinson fait plus ou moins passage de la maxillosa Sm . d'Afrique a falcigera Rog. de l'Inde et de Madagascar.

Emery, C., 1894:
Mon ami M. le professeur A. Forel, a qui j'ai envoye un exemplaire de cette Fourmi, m'ecrit l'avoir recue de la Reunion et croit pouvoir l'identifier a Formica vinsonella de Leon Dufour.

Forel, A., 1907:
[[ worker ]] [[ male ]]. Seychelles;. Amirantes (Eagle); Coetivy. Espece malgache, les Comores, etc.

Specimen Data Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 4 times found in littoral rainforest, 3 times found in urban/garden, 2 times found in dry forest, 1 times found in mixed forest, 1 times found in tropical dry forest, 1 times found in urban garden, 1 times found in coastal, 1 times found in in house, 1 times found in littoral vegetation, 1 times found in P. grandis forest

Collected most commonly using these methods or in the following microhabitats: 1 times at light, 1 times voucher nr DIST_299A

Elevations: collected from 5 - 1600 meters, 86 meters average