Description of the Male Caste of Leptogenys borneensis (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with Its First  Discovery in Sumatra

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

doi:10.15407/zoo2024.01.019

R. Satria Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7597-8180
F. A. D. Nugraha Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0048-8515
A. Achyar Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences, Universitas Negeri Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7132-0277
D. Zulyetti College of Teacher Training and Education Abdi Pendidikan Payakumbuh, Payakumbuh, West Sumatra, Indonesia
K. Eguchi Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1054-1295

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/zoo2024.01.019

Keywords: ants, Leptogenys, New record, Male Genital Morphology

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)

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