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Genus: Lepisiota

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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2010)

Lepisiota Santschi, 1926a: 15 [as subgenus of Acantholepis]. Type-species: Plagiolepis rothneyi, by original designation.

Taxonomic history

[Lepisiota first available replacement name for Acantholepis Mayr, 1861 (junior homonym of Acantholepis Kroyer, 1846: 98 (Pisces)), hence valid name of genus: Bolton, 1995b: 33.]

Lepisiota in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Bolton, 1994: 51; Bolton, 2003: 23.

[Lepisiota incorrectly as junior synonym of Acanthomyrmex: Brown, 1973b: 181; Snelling, 1981: 397. In both publications Acanthomyrmex is an error for Acantholepis.]

Homonym replaced by LEPISIOTA

Acantholepis Mayr, 1861: 42. Type-species: Hypoclinea frauenfeldi, by monotypy.

Taxonomic history

[Junior homonym of Acantholepis Kroyer, 1846: 98 (Pisces)].

Acantholepis in Formicinae: Mayr, 1861: 42 [Formicinae]; Mayr, 1862: 652 [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 9 [Formicidae].

Acantholepis in Camponotinae: Forel, 1878: 378 [Camponotidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879a: 453 [Camponotidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 171.

Acantholepis in Camponotinae, Plagiolepidini: Forel, 1886f: 212; Forel, 1893a: 165; Emery, 1895j: 771; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 143; Forel, 1912i: 88; Forel, 1917: 249; Arnold, 1920a: 554.

Acantholepis in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Ashmead, 1905b: 384; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 696; Emery, 1925b: 23; Santschi, 1926a: 15; all subsequent authors except the following.

Acantholepis in Formicinae, Pseudolasius genus group: Agosti, 1991: 296.

[Achantilepis Santschi, 1935b: 274, incorrect subsequent spelling.]

[Pseudacantholepis Bernard, 1953b: 256 (attributed to Santschi) [as subgenus of Acantholepis]. Unavailable name. Proposed without designation of type-species and therefore unavailable. Species included by Bernard (1953) are all referable to Lepisiota: Bolton, 1995b: 44.]

Junior synonym of LEPISIOTA

Baroniurbania Pagliano & Scaramozzino, 1990: 4. Unnecessary replacement name for Acantholepis Mayr (junior homonym).

Taxonomic history

Baroniurbania as junior synonym of Lepisiota: Bolton, 1994: 51; Bolton, 2003: 102.

Baroniurbania as subgenus of Lepisiota: Dietrich, 2004: 324.

Genus Lepisiota references

[Note. Entries prior to Bolton, 1995b: 44, refer to genus as Acantholepis.]

Roger, 1863b: 11 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863: 394 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 9 (diagnosis); Forel, 1878: 378 (diagnosis); Andr�, 1882b: 210 (Europe & Algeria species key); Forel, 1892a: 41 (all species key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 171 (catalogue); Forel, 1894c: 411 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 315 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Arnold, 1920a: 554 (diagnosis, South Africa species key); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 214, 934, 1036 (diagnosis, Afrotropical, Malagasy catalogues); Emery, 1925b: 23 (diagnosis, catalogue); Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929c: 480 (Turkestan species key); Finzi, 1936: 188 (Egypt species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 209 (Asia checklist); Collingwood, 1985: 292 (Saudi Arabia species key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 281 (Balkans species key); Atanasov & Dlussky, 1992: 205 (Bulgaria species key); Xu, 1994c: 232 (China species key); Arakelian, 1994: 80 (Armenia species key); Bolton, 1994: 51 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 226 (catalogue); Wu, J. & Wang, 1995: 128 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 363 (Saudi Arabia species key); Zhou, 2001b: 167 (China, Guangxi species key).