Lepisiota

Lepisiota is an Old World genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.[2] They nest in rotten wood, in standing trees or in the ground, generally in less forested areas.[3]

Lepisiota
L. canescens worker from Madagascar
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hymenoptera
Family:
Formicidae
Subfamily:
Formicinae
Tribe:
Plagiolepidini
Genus:
Lepisiota

Santschi, 1926
Type species
Plagiolepis rothney
Diversity[1]
81 species
Synonyms

Acantholepis Mayr, 1861

Species
  • Lepisiota acuta Xu, 1994
  • Lepisiota affinis (Santschi, 1937)
  • Lepisiota ajjer (Bernard, 1953)
  • Lepisiota albata (Santschi, 1935)
  • Lepisiota alexis (Santschi, 1937)
  • Lepisiota ambigua (Santschi, 1935)
  • Lepisiota angolensis (Santschi, 1937)
  • Lepisiota annandalei (Mukerjee, 1930)
  • Lepisiota arabica (Collingwood, 1985)
  • Lepisiota arenaria (Arnold, 1920)
  • Lepisiota arnoldi (Forel, 1913)
  • Lepisiota aurea (Karavaiev, 1933)
  • Lepisiota bipartita (Smith, 1861)
  • Lepisiota cacozela (Stitz, 1916)
  • Lepisiota canescens (Emery, 1897)
  • Lepisiota capensis (Mayr, 1862)
  • Lepisiota capitata (Forel, 1913)
  • Lepisiota carbonaria (Emery, 1892)
  • Lepisiota chapmani (Wheeler, 1935)
  • Lepisiota crinita (Mayr, 1895)
  • Lepisiota curta (Emery, 1897)
  • Lepisiota dammama Collingwood & Agosti, 1996
  • Lepisiota dendrophila (Arnold, 1949)
  • Lepisiota depilis (Emery, 1897)
  • Lepisiota deplanata (Stitz, 1911)
  • Lepisiota depressa (Santschi, 1914)
  • Lepisiota dhofara Collingwood & Agosti, 1996
  • Lepisiota dolabellae (Forel, 1911)
  • Lepisiota egregia (Forel, 1913)
  • Lepisiota elegantissima Collingwood & Van Harten, 2011
  • Lepisiota emmelii (Kutter, 1932)
  • Lepisiota erythraea (Forel, 1910)
  • Lepisiota fergusoni (Forel, 1895)
  • Lepisiota foreli (Arnold, 1920)
  • Lepisiota frauenfeldi (Mayr, 1855) ("browsing ant" - a pest in Australia[4][5])
  • Lepisiota gerardi (Santschi, 1915)
  • Lepisiota gracilicornis (Forel, 1892)
  • Lepisiota harteni Collingwood & Agosti, 1996
  • Lepisiota hexiangu Terayama, 2009
  • Lepisiota hirsuta (Santschi, 1914)
  • Lepisiota imperfecta (Santschi, 1926)
  • Lepisiota incisa (Forel, 1913)
  • Lepisiota kabulica (Pisarski, 1967)
  • Lepisiota karawaiewi (Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929)
  • Lepisiota longinoda (Arnold, 1920)
  • Lepisiota megacephala (Weber, 1943)
  • Lepisiota melanogaster (Emery, 1915)
  • Lepisiota melas (Emery, 1915)
  • Lepisiota mlanjiensis (Arnold, 1946)
  • Lepisiota modesta (Forel, 1894)
  • Lepisiota monardi (Santschi, 1930)
  • Lepisiota nigrescens (Karavaiev, 1912)
  • Lepisiota nigrisetosa (Santschi, 1935)
  • Lepisiota nigriventris (Emery, 1899)
  • Lepisiota obtusa (Emery, 1901)
  • Lepisiota oculata (Santschi, 1935)
  • Lepisiota opaca (Forel, 1892)
  • Lepisiota opaciventris (Finzi, 1936)
  • Lepisiota palpalis (Santschi, 1935)
  • Lepisiota piliscapa (Santschi, 1935)
  • Lepisiota quadraticeps (Arnold, 1944)
  • Lepisiota reticulata Xu, 1994
  • Lepisiota riyadha Collingwood & Agosti, 1996
  • Lepisiota rothneyi (Forel, 1894)
  • Lepisiota rubrovaria (Forel, 1910)
  • Lepisiota rugithorax (Santschi, 1930)
  • Lepisiota schoutedeni (Santschi, 1935)
  • Lepisiota semenovi (Ruzsky, 1905)
  • Lepisiota sericea (Forel, 1892)
  • Lepisiota silvicola (Arnold, 1920)
  • Lepisiota somalica (Menozzi, 1927)
  • Lepisiota spinisquama (Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929)
  • Lepisiota spinosior (Forel, 1913)
  • Lepisiota splendens (Karavaiev, 1912)
  • Lepisiota submetallica (Arnold, 1920)
  • Lepisiota syriaca (André, 1881)
  • Lepisiota tenuipilis (Santschi, 1935)
  • Lepisiota validiuscula (Emery, 1897)
  • Lepisiota xichangensis (Wu & Wang, 1995)

References
  1. Bolton, B. (2014). "Lepisiota". AntCat. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
  2. "Genus: Lepisiota". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  3. Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. (2013). "The Ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—Faunal Overview, First Species Checklist, Bibliography, Accounts for All Genera, and Discussion on Taxonomy and Zoogeography". Journal of East African Natural History. 101 (2): 127. doi:10.2982/028.101.0201. S2CID 84797311.
  4. "Browsing ants". Agriculture and Food. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  5. "Browsing ant". National pest & disease outbreaks. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
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