Leptogenys antillana

Distribution
This taxon was described from Haiti. It is known from Hispaniola (Dominican Republic).

Nomenclature

 *  antillana. Leptogenys (Lobopelta) antillana Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1914: 14, fig. 5 (w.) HAITI. See also: Lattke, 2011: 146.

Worker
Length 4.5-5.5 mm.

Body slender. Head about one and one-third times as long as broad, a little broader in front than behind, with rather straight sides and posterior border. Eyes small, shorter than their distance from the anterior corners of the head. Mandibles narrow but with distinct apical and basal borders. Clypeus very strongly carinate, with an anterior, median, beak-like point, filling the space between the mandibles when they are closed. Antennae slender; scapes extending a little more than their greatest diameter beyond the posterior border of the head; funicular joints 1-5 decidedly longer than broad, the second longest, joints 6-10 only slightly longer than broad. Thorax in front as broad as the head, pronotum as broad as long, meso- and epinotum together longer than the pronotum, in profile with straight dorsal surface about twice as long as the declivity which is feebly convex. Petiole from above 1.5 times as long as broad, twice as broad behind as in front, the node laterally compressed, in profile as high as long, as high in front as behind, evenly rounded above, with short, abrupt, rounded anterior and posterior declivities. Gaster and legs slender.

Smooth and shining. Mandibles with a few coarse punctures along their internal borders.

Hairs whitish, short, suberect or reclinate, not very abundant on the body, more abundant and shorter on the scapes and legs.

Black; mandibles, funiculi, bases and tips of scapes, tarsi, knees, tips of tibiae and tip of gaster red or reddish brown.

Type Locality Information
Described from seven specimens taken at Milot, Diquini and Petionville.

Additional References

 * [[Media:Lattke 2011.pdf|Lattke, J. E. 2011. Revision of the New World species of the genus Leptogenys Roger (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 69:127-264. [2011-12-13] PDF]]