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Extant: 95 valid species, 44 valid subspecies
Taxonomic history
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.