| Authorship | Emery, 1887f: 433 | 
|---|---|
| Forms | w. | 
| Bioregion | Australasia | 
| Locality | NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea) | 
| Primary type information | Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea (“New Guinea”): Andai (L.M. D’Albertis). Primary type depository: MSNG. | 
| Type notes | No indication of number of specimens is given. | 
| Leptogenys purpurea | Species | Valid | |
| Lobopelta kitteli purpurea | Subspecies | Obsolete combination an obsolete combination of Leptogenys purpurea (Emery, 1887) | Original combination |