Leptogenys gagates

This distinct species is only known from the type series: 3 point-mounted workers on a single pin, and a single worker on another pin.

Identification
Lattke (2011) - Head subquadrate in full-face view, mandibles elongate, not shutting tight against clypeus; median clypeal lobe slender and forming convex margin with lateral lobes; eye weakly convex; scape surpasses posterior cephalic margin by one-fourth its length; width of mesonotum more than twice its length in dorsal view, anterior margin convex, posterior margin concave. Propodeal spiracle round.

Distribution
This taxon was described from Honduras. It is known from Honduras.

Nomenclature

 *  gagates. Leptogenys (Leptogenys) gagates Mann, 1922: 11, fig. 5 (w.) HONDURAS. See also: Lattke, 2011: 203.

Type Material
Syntype workers: Honduras, San Juan Pueblo, ii.–iii.1920, Cat. No. 24439 (W.M. Mann) [examined].

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 & Phylogeny, 69, 127-264. PDF]]