Protonym: Leptogenys insularis
Authorship Smith, 1879a: 675
Forms w.
Bioregion Oceania
Locality HAWAII (Oahu I.)
Primary type information Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2014: 109). Type-locality: U.S.A.: “Sandwich Is” (= Hawaii Is), Oahu I. (T. Blackburn). Type-depository: BMNH. Type-specimen: CASENT0102272 (lectotype).
Type notes Lectotype is a single worker labelled “52” upon the stage card, and “Oahu. 79/40.” BMNH Accessions Register gives: “1879 no. 40. 1 Leptogenys insularis Sm. Sandwich Is (Oahu). Presented by Rev. T. Blackburn, Honolulu.”
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Leptogenys insularis Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Leptogenys falcigera Roger, 1861
Original combination