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Genus: Plagiolepis   Mayr, 1861 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

Extant: 62 species, 19 subspecies

Fossil: 10 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 PDF: 7 [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1868c PDF: 36 [Formicidae].
Plagiolepis in Camponotinae: Forel, 1878c PDF: 378 [Camponotidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879a: 453 [Camponotidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 172.
Plagiolepis in Camponotinae, Plagiolepidini: Forel, 1886h PDF: 212; Forel, 1893b PDF: 165; Emery, 1895l PDF: 771; Wheeler, 1910a: 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: 11 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a PDF: 442 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865 PDF: 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 PDF: 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: 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).

Taxon Page Images:


Overview:

Plagiolepis jerdoni (Forel, 1894) tends to mealy bugs on her underground champer

Distribution:

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

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Central, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eastern Africa, Eastern Cape, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Gauteng, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leribe, Lesotho, Middle Africa, Morogoro, Mozambique, North West, Northern, Ogooué-Ivindo, Ogooué-Maritime, Saint Helena, South Africa, South Sudan, Southern Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Upper Nile, Western Cape, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Australasia Region: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, New Caledonia, New South Wales, Norfolk Island, Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Queensland, Solomon Islands, South Australia, Vanuatu, Western Australia
Indomalaya Region: Asia, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Maharashtra, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Vietnam, West Bengal
Malagasy Region: Anjouan, Antananarivo, Antsiranana, Comoros, Europa Island, Fianarantsoa, Grande Comore, Juan de Nova Island, Madagascar, Mahajanga, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mohéli, Reunion, Rodrigues, Seychelles, Toamasina, Toliara
Nearctic Region: North America, United States
Neotropical Region: Americas, Barbados, Bermuda
Oceania Region: Ba, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Hawaii, Kadavu, Lau, Melanesia, Naitasiri, Niue, Polynesia, Tonga
Palearctic Region: Aargau, Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Alicante, Anatolikí Makedonía kai Thráki, Andalusia, Andorra, Ar Riyad, Armenia, Austria, Balearic Islands, Balearic Islands, Belgium, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, Campania, Canary Islands, Catalonia, Channel Islands, China, Crete, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dobrich, Eastern Asia, Eastern Europe, Egypt, Europe, Eşfahān, Flemish Brabant, France, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Gangwon, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Ionía Nísia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kairouan, Kaliningrad, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardia, Macedonia, Madeira, Malta, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Māzandarān, Namur, Netherlands, North Korea, Northern Africa, Notío Aigaío, Oman, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Smolyan, South Korea, Southern Europe, Spain, Stereá Elláda, Switzerland, Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma, Toscana, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Umbria, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vidin, Western Asia, Western Europe, Yemen

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Plagiolepis   Mayr, G., 1862, Myrmecologische Studien., Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12, pp. 649-776: 770, (download) 770 4445
Plagiolepis   Santschi, F., 1926, Trois notes myrmécologiques., Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 95, pp. 13-28: 13, (download) 13 3616
Plagiolepis   Santschi, F., 1926, Trois notes myrmécologiques., Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 95, pp. 13-28: 14, (download) 14 3616
Plagiolepis   Santschi, F., 1926, Trois notes myrmécologiques., Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 95, pp. 13-28: 14, (download) 14 3616
Plagiolepis   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 30, (download) 30 21008
Plagiolepis   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: 47, (download) 47 21622
Plagiolepis   Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8, pp. 1-174: 110, (download) 110 6175
Plagiolepis   Forel, A., 1892, Hymenopteres 2 (supplement au 28 fascicule). Les Formicides., Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar. 20., Paris: Unknown Publisher, pp. 232-280: 241, (download) 241 8239
Plagiolepis   Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269: 210-212, (download) 210-212 20597


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