Protonym: Leptogenys oresbia
Authorship Wilson, 1958c: 131
Forms w.eq.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality SOLOMON IS (Malaita I.)
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.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Leptogenys oresbia Species Valid Original combination