Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Solomon Is: Malaita I., nr Fourafi (W.M. Mann). Type-depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 1 paratype worker, 1 paratype ergatoid queen. Paratype-locality: same as for holotype. Paratype-depository: MCZC.
Type notes:Mann, 1919: 300, misidentified “a small series” as Leptogenys laeviceps, which was later described by Wilson as the type-series of Leptogenys oresbia. The remainder of Mann’s original series should be in USNM.