Leptogenys elegans Bolton

Type location Nigeria (Bolton, 1975a: 265, illustrated, head, plus eye shape); holotype worker and two paratype workers were collected by Bolton from the stump of a rotten tree branch at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre, 10.ix.1969 .

Bolton's description is at .

Nigeria specimen (Taylor, 1976: 23). WORKER. TL 4.50-4.90 mm, HL 0.96-1.02, HW 0.68-0.72, SL 0.89-0.94, PW 0.58-0.62
Colour black, extremities yellow-brown, shiny. Coarsely sculptured with fovea smaller on head than elsewhere on body. Collection as the holotype by B. Bolton.

Observed foraging on native trees and cocoa in Ghana, including pkd collections, at Pankese Cocoa Station (1 worker, C.A. Collingwood, 10.ix.1969), Bunso (6 workers by pkd, 7 and 30.vii.1969), CRIG (1 worker, ant ecology sample, 8.x.1966) and Asikaisu (1 worker, ant ecology sample, 9.ix.1969) (all by D. Leston).

Also from Ivory Coast, at Plantation Niecky, 40 km west of Abidjan (5 workers, W.L. Brown, 14.i.1963); and Cameroun at Byime-Assi (G. Terron) (all above in Bolton, 1975a).