DESCRIPTION OF THE MALE CASTE OF LEPTOGENYS BORNEENSIS (HYMENOPTERA, FORMICIDAE), WITH ITS FIRST DISCOVERY IN SUMATRA

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R. Satria, F.A.D. Nugraha, A. Achyar, D. Zulyetti, K. Eguchi

2024 Zoodiversity Vol. 58 Issue 1 Article Cited by 0 Quartile

Abstract

Males of Leptogenys (Lobopelta) borneensis Wheeler, 1919 are described, including their genital morphology, which is important for diagnostics and morphological phylogeny of the genus Leptogenys Roger, 1861. The mtDNA COI barcoding sequence of 607 bp obtained and uploaded to GenBank and BOLD. The species was previously known from Borneo (Malaysia: Sarawak — type locality), Thailand and Vietnam and is recorded for the first time from Sumatra (Indonesia). © Publisher Publishing House "Akademperiodyka" of the NAS of Ukraine, 2024.

Affiliations

Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Padang, West Sumatra, 35171, Indonesia; Biodiversity of Sumatra Research Group, Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sci-ences, Universitas Negeri Padang, West Sumatra, 35171, Indonesia; CTKIP Yayasan Abdi Pendidikan Payakumbuh, West Sumatra, Payakumbuh, 26213, Indonesia; Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, 1920397, Japan