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Genus: Leptogenys   Roger, 1861 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

Extant: 308 species, 25 subspecies

Fossil: 1 species

Leptogenys Roger, 1861a: 41. Type-species: Leptogenys falcigera, by subsequent designation of Bingham, 1903 PDF: 52. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Leptogenys in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 46; Mayr, 1862 PDF: 714 (in key) [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865 PDF: 14 [Poneridae].
Leptogenys in Ponerinae, Leptogenyini: Forel, 1893b PDF: 162; Forel, 1899B: 17; Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382; Emery, 1911e PDF: 97; Arnold, 1915: 89; Forel, 1917 PDF: 238; Gallardo, 1918c PDF: 84; Wheeler, 1922: 652; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 656; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 31; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78.
Leptogenys in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 767; Forel, 1900f PDF: 304; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Brown, 1963: 3; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 129; Jaffe, 1993: 8; Bolton, 1994: 164; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 163.
Genus Leptogenys references
Roger, 1863b: 19 (Lobopelta, Leptogenys catalogues); Mayr, 1863a PDF: 426, 427 (Leptogenys, Lobopelta catalogues); Mayr, 1865 PDF: 14, 15 (Leptogenys, Lobopelta diagnoses); Mayr, 1867a PDF: 89 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1879 PDF: 664 (Lobopelta species key); Cresson, 1887 PDF: 258 (U.S.A. catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 43, 46 (Lobopelta, Leptogenys catalogues); Forel, 1900f PDF: 304 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 52, 55 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma Leptogenys, Lobopelta species keys); Emery, 1911e PDF: 97 (diagnosis, subgenera key, catalogue); Arnold, 1915: 89, 95 (diagnosis, South Africa Leptogenys (Leptogenys) & Leptogenys (Lobopelta) species keys); Mann, 1919 PDF: 298 (Papuasia Leptogenys (Leptogenys) species key); Mann, 1921 PDF: 426 (Fiji Leptogenys (Lobopelta) species key); Wheeler, 1922: 93, 786, 1010 (diagnosis, Afrotropical, Malagasy catalogues); Wheeler, 1923e PDF: 14 (New World Leptogenys (Lobopelta) species key); Creighton, 1950a PDF: 51 (North America Leptogenys (Lobopelta) species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 31 (Asia checklist); Wilson, 1958c PDF: 113 (Melanesia & Moluccas species revision, key); Wilson, 1958c PDF: 136 (New Caledonia species key); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 129 (Neotropical catalogue); Alayo, 1974: 8 (Cuba species key); Bolton, 1975a PDF: 239 (diagnosis, review of genus); Bolton, 1975a PDF: 244 (Afrotropical species revision, key); Bolton, 1975a PDF: 293 (Malagasy species key); Smith, 1979: 1343 (North America catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 32, 39 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 34, 64 (Australia, New Caledonia checklists); Trager & Johnson, 1988: 30 (U.S.A. species key); Brandão, 1991 PDF: 349 (Neotropical catalogue); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 229 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 41 (China species key); Shattuck, 1999: 189 (Australia synopsis); Xu, 2000A: 118 (China species key); Zhou, 2001A PDF: 39 (China, Guangxi species key); Bolton, 2003 PDF: 163 (synopsis); Lattke, in Fernández, 2008A PDF: 145 (Colombia species, review); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 115 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 133 (south-western Australia species key); Bakhtiar & Chiang, 2011 PDF: 46 (Sabah species, provisional key); Lattke, 2011 PDF: 139 (New World species revision, key); Sarnat & Economo, 2012 PDF: 154 (Fiji species key); Zhou, Chen, Chen, Zhou, Ban & Huang, 2012 PDF: 886 (China species key); Bharti & Wachkoo, 2013 PDF: (India species key); Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 PDF: 92 (diagnosis, synoptic description, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations); Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2014 PDF: (Malagasy species revision, identification key, distribution maps); Xu & He, 2015 PDF: 137 (Oriental species key); Arimoto, 2017 10.3897/zookeys.651.10366 PDF: 79 (Leptogenys modiglianii species group revision, SE Asia); Sharaf, Akbar, Al Dhafer & Aldawood, 2017 10.1080/09397140.2017.1292645 PDF: 1 (Arabian Peninsula species key).

Taxon Page Images:



Leptogenys falcigera is a predator of isopods. Hawaii.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oceania, Palearctic bioregions.

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Botswana, Bundibugyo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eastern, Eastern Africa, Eastern Cape, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gauteng, Ghana, Guinea, Haut-Katanga, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laikipia, Limpopo, Lindi, Matabeleland North, Middle Africa, Morogoro, Mozambique, Mpumalanga, Namibia, Nigeria, North West, Ogooué-Maritime, Sangha-Mbaéré, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, South-West, Southern Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Wakiso, Western, Western Africa, Western Cape, Woleu-Ntem, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Australasia Region: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Central, East Sepik, Eastern Highlands, Guadalcanal, Gulf, Madang, Makira-Ulawa, Maluku, Maluku Utara, Morobe, New Caledonia, New South Wales, Nord, Northern, Northern Territory, Oceania, Papua, Papua Barat, Papua New Guinea, Queensland, Solomon Islands, South Australia, Sud, Vanuatu, West Sepik, Western Australia
Indomalaya Region: Abra, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Asia, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Christmas Island, India, Indonesia, Jawa Barat, Karnataka, Krakatau Islands, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Negeri Sembilan, Nepal, Odisha, Philippines, Sabah, Sarawak, Selangor, Shan, Sikkim, Singapore, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi Utara, Sumatera Barat, Taiwan, Tamil Nadu, Thailand, Vietnam, West Bengal, Yunnan
Malagasy Region: Anjouan, Antananarivo, Antsiranana, Comoros, Europa Island, Fianarantsoa, Juan de Nova Island, Madagascar, Mahajanga, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mohéli, Reunion, Rodrigues, Seychelles, Toamasina, Toliara
Nearctic Region: Baja California, Baja California Sur, Florida, Louisiana, North America, Nuevo León, Puebla, Sonora, Texas, United States, Washington, D.C.
Neotropical Region: Alajuela, Amazonas, Amazonas, Amazonas, Americas, Aragua, Argentina, Atlántida, Bahia, Barahona, Barbados, Belize, Bocas del Toro, Bolivia, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Caldas, Caquetá, Caribbean, Cayo, Central America, Chiapas, Chontales, Ciudad de México, Colombia, Colón, Comayagua, Cortés, Costa Caribe Norte, Costa Caribe Sur, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cundinamarca, Darién, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Escuintla, Espírito Santo, Falcón, French Guiana, Galapagos Islands, Galápagos, Goiás, Gracias a Dios, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guanacaste, Guatemala, Guerrero, Guyana, Haiti, Heredia, Honduras, Islas de la Bahía, Izabal, Jalisco, Jamaica, Jinotega, Lempira, León, Limón, Los Santos, Madre de Dios, Magdalena, Maldonado, Matagalpa, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mexico, Monagas, Morelos, Nayarit, Nicaragua, Norte de Santander, Oaxaca, Olancho, Orellana, Panama, Panamá, Paraguay, Pará, Peru, Petén, Pichincha, Puerto Rico, Puntarenas, Quintana Roo, Rio de Janeiro, Sacatepéquez, Saint Ann, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San José, Santa Catarina, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Sergipe, South America, Suchitepéquez, Sucre, Sucumbíos, Suriname, São Paulo, Tamaulipas, Trinidad and Tobago, Trujillo, Uruguay, Valle del Cauca, Vargas, Venezuela, Veracruz, Yaracuy, Yucatán, Zacapa, Ñeembucú
Oceania Region: Airai, Ba, Cakaudrove, Fiji, Guam, Hawaii, Kayangel, Lomaiviti, Marshall Islands, Melanesia, Micronesia, Micronesia, Naitasiri, Namosi, Ngardmau, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Ra, Rewa
Palearctic Region: Asir, China, Eastern Asia, Himachal Pradesh, Japan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Western Asia

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Leptogenys   Forel, A., 1891, Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. Deuxieme partie: Les Formicides., Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar., Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale, pp. 1-231: 112, (download) 112 6734
Leptogenys   Yoshimura, M. & Fisher, B. L., 2007, A revision of male ants of the Malagasy region (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Key to subfamilies and treatment of the genera of Ponerinae., Zootaxa 1654, pp. 21-40: 34, (download) 34 21365
Leptogenys   Mayr, G., 1893, Formiciden von Herrn Dr. Fr. Stuhlmann in Ost-Afrika gesammelt., Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 10, pp. 193-201: 6, (download) 6 4386
Leptogenys   Forel, A., 1891, Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. Deuxieme partie: Les Formicides., Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar., Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale, pp. 1-231: 109, (download) 109 6734
Leptogenys   Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269: 93-94, (download) 93-94 20597


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