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Genus: Plagiolepis

Name Status: Valid Name

Taxonomic Hierarchy:

Subfamily: Formicinae Genus: Plagiolepis

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Extant: 62 species, 19 subspecies

Fossil: 11 species

Plagiolepis Mayr, 1861 PDF: 42 Type-species: Formica pygmaea, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Plagiolepis in Formicinae: Mayr, 1861 PDF: 42 [Formicinae]; Mayr, 1862 PDF: 652 [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 7 [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1868c PDF: 36 [Formicidae].

Plagiolepis in Camponotinae: Forel, 1878c PDF: 378 [Camponotidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879a: 453 [Camponotidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 172.

Plagiolepis in Camponotinae, Plagiolepidini: Forel, 1886h PDF: 212; Forel, 1893b PDF: 165; Emery, 1895l PDF: 771; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 143; Forel, 1912j PDF: 88; Wheeler, 1915i PDF: 100; Forel, 1917 PDF: 249; Arnold, 1920a PDF: 578.

Plagiolepis in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 384; Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 18; Wheeler, 1922: 696; Emery, 1925d PDF: 19; Santschi, 1926a PDF: 14; all subsequent authors except the one below; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 23, 105.

Plagiolepis in Formicinae, Pseudolasius genus group: Agosti, 1991 PDF: 296.

Genus Plagiolepis references

Roger, 1863b PDF: 11 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a PDF: 442 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 7 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a PDF: 73 (diagnosis); Forel, 1878c PDF: 376, 378 (†Rhopalomyrmex, Plagiolepis diagnoses); André, 1882b: 208 (Europe & Algeria species key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 172, 175 (Plagiolepis, †Rhopalomyrmex, catalogue); Forel, 1894c PDF: 414 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 320 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Arnold, 1920a PDF: 578 (diagnosis, subgenera key); Arnold, 1922 PDF: 579 (South Africa species key); Wheeler, 1922: 211, 696, 928, 1035 (diagnosis, subgenera key, Afrotropical, Malagasy catalogues); Emery, 1925d PDF: 19 (diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1925d PDF: 22 (Plagiolepis (Anacantholepis) diagnosis, catalogue); Stitz, 1939: 231 (Germany species key); Kratochvíl, 1941b: 98 (Central Europe species key); Novák & Sadil, 1941 PDF: 98 (Central Europe species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 212, 213 (Asia Anacantholepis, Plagiolepis checklists); Bernard, 1967a PDF: 272 (diagnosis, Western Europe species key); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 205 (Neotropical catalogue); Kutter, 1977c: 185 (Switzerland species key); Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 89 (Iberian Peninsula species key); Smith, 1979: 1422 (North America, catalogue); Gösswald, 1985: 264 (Germany species key); Collingwood, 1985 PDF: 297 (Saudi Arabia species key); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 130 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 55 (Australia, New Caledonia checklist); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 280 (Balkans species key); Radchenko, 1989c PDF: 153 (European former U.S.S.R. species key); Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990 PDF: 161 (Turkmenistan species key); Morisita, Kubota, et al., 1991: 16 (Japan species key); Atanasov & Dlussky, 1992: 201 (Bulgaria species key); Arakelian, 1994 PDF: 78 (Armenia species key); Bolton, 1994: 51 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1052 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 334 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 130 (China species key); Radchenko, 1996D: 178 (Central & Southern Palaearctic species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 362 (Saudi Arabia species key); Seifert, 1996B: 178 (Central Europe species key); Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 22 (Portugal species key); Shattuck, 1999: 106 (Australia synopsis); Seifert, 2007: 158 (North and Central Europe species key); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 213 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 106 (south-western Australia species key); Dlussky, 2010A PDF: 72 (Eocene European amber species key); Sharaf, Aldawood & Taylor, 2011 PDF: 208 (Arabian Peninsula species key).

Genus Plagiolepis references