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Genus: Lepisiota   Santschi, 1926 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

83 species, 51 subspecies

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

Taxonomic history

[Lepisiota first available replacement name for Acantholepis Mayr, 1861 PDF (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 PDF: 23.
[Lepisiota incorrectly as junior synonym of Acanthomyrmex: Brown, 1973b PDF: 181; Snelling, 1981: 397. In both publications Acanthomyrmex is an error for Acantholepis.].
Genus Lepisiota references
[Note. Entries prior to Bolton, 1995b: 44, refer to genus as Acantholepis.]
Roger, 1863b: 11 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a PDF: 394 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865 PDF: 9 (diagnosis); Forel, 1878c PDF: 378 (diagnosis); André, 1882b: 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); Atanasov & 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, Monks, Polaszek & Aldawood, 2016 10.1080/00222933.2016.1180722 PDF: 1875 (Arabia species key)

Taxon Page Images:



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

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Afrotropical, Indomalaya, Palearctic bioregions.

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Central, Central, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eastern Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gauteng, Ghana, Guinea, Haut-Katanga, Ituri, Ivory Coast, Kakamega, Kenya, Kongo Central, KwaZulu-Natal, Laikipia, Leribe, Lesotho, Limpopo, Malawi, Mali, Middle Africa, Mozambique, Mpumalanga, Namibia, Northern, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Southern Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tshopo, Uganda, Western Africa, Western Cape, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Australasia Region: Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Western Australia
Indomalaya Region: Andhra Pradesh, Asia, Bangladesh, Borneo, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Yunnan
Malagasy Region: Anjouan, Antananarivo, Antsiranana, Comoros, Madagascar, Mahajanga, Reunion, Toamasina
Oceania Region: Guam, Micronesia
Palearctic Region: Afghanistan, Al Bahah, Albania, Algeria, Ar Riyad, Armenia, Attikí, Azerbaijan, Balearic Islands, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, Central Asia, China, Crete, Croatia, Eastern Asia, Eastern Europe, Egypt, Europe, Eşfahān, Georgia, Greece, Ionía Nísia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kairouan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Māzandarān, Northern Africa, Notío Aigaío, Nūristān, Oman, Peloponnísos, Puglia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Southern Europe, Spain, Syria, Thessalía, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Western Asia, Yemen, Zanjān

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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