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Genus: Lepisiota   Santschi, 1926 

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Current Valid Name:



Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2022)

Extant: 95 valid species, 44 valid subspecies

Lepisiota Santschi, 1926a PDF: 15 [as subgenus of Acantholepis Mayr, 1861]. Type-species: Plagiolepis rothneyi, by original designation. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Replacement name for Acantholepis Mayr, 1861 (junior homonym of Acantholepis (Pisces) Kroyer, 1846: 98), and hence is the first available replacement name: Bolton, 1995b: 33.
[Lepisiota incorrectly as junior synonym of Acanthomyrmex: Brown, 1973b PDF: 181; Snelling, 1981: 397. In both publications Acanthomyrmex is an error for Acantholepis Mayr, 1861.]
Subgenera of Lepisiota: nominal plus Lepisiota (Baroniurbania): Dietrich, 2004 PDF: 324.
Genus Lepisiota references
[Note. Entries prior to Bolton, 1995b: 44, refer to genus as Acantholepis.]
Roger, 1863b PDF: 11 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a PDF: 394 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865 PDF: 9 (diagnosis); Forel, 1878c PDF: 378 (diagnosis); André, 1882c PDF: 210 (Europe & Algeria species key); Forel, 1892a PDF: 41 (all species key); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 171 (catalogue); Forel, 1894c PDF: 411 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 315 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Arnold, 1920a PDF: 554 (diagnosis, South Africa species key); Wheeler, 1922: 214, 934, 1036 (diagnosis, Afrotropical, Malagasy catalogues); Emery, 1925d PDF: 23 (diagnosis, catalogue); Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929c PDF: 480 (Turkestan species key); Finzi, 1936 PDF: 188 (Egypt species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 209 (Asia checklist); Collingwood, 1985 PDF: 292 (Saudi Arabia species key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 281 (Balkans species key); Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 205 (Bulgaria species key); Xu, 1994c: 232 (China species key); Arakelian, 1994 PDF: 80 (Armenia species key); Bolton, 1994: 51 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 226 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 128 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 363 (Saudi Arabia species key); Zhou, 2001a PDF: 167 (China, Guangxi species key); Sharaf et al., 2016 10.1080/00222933.2016.1180722 PDF: 1875 (Arabia species key); Cantone, 2017 PDF: 160 (brief male diagnosis); Sharaf et al., 2020 10.3897/jhr.76.50193 PDF: 131 (Arabian species key); Wachkoo et al., 2021 10.20363/BZB-2021.70.2.227 PDF: 228 (worker diagnosis, synoptic list of Indian species), 243 (Indian species key).

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Breaking open a hollow twig reveals a nest of Lepisiota. Kibale forest, Uganda.
Image © Alex Wild. // Distribution

Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Africa: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
    Asia: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Borneo, China, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen
    Europe: Albania, Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Russia, Spain
    Oceania: Guam, Hawaii, Papua New Guinea
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Afrotropical, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Oceania, Palearctic
  Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records):
    Afrotropical, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Palearctic

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Treatment Citation: Mohamed, S., Zalat, S. & Fadl, H., 2001, Taxonomy of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) collected by pitfall traps from Sinai and Delta region, Egypt., Egyptian Journal of Natural History 3, pp. 40-61

Genus LepisiotaHNS Santschi, 1926

Acantholepis MayrHNS, 1861: Europ. Formicid.42.Wien.

LepisiotaHNS Santschi, 1926: Bolton, 1994, Identification guide to the ant genera of the world 222pp.

Type-species: Hypoclinea frauenfeldi MayrHNS, 1855: Verh. Zool Bot. Ges. Wien. 5:378.

This genus has been known as Acantholepis MayrHNS,1861 for about 130 years but this name is a junior homonym of Acantholepis KrayrHNS, 1846. LepisiotaHNS Santschi, 1926 is the first available replacement name (Bolton, 1994). The new combination was then designated by Bolton five years later in the new general catalogue of the ants of the world (Bolton 1995).

Distribution: Palaearctic, Ethiopian & Oriental regions.



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