Lepisiota
| Lepisiota | |
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| Lepisiota incisa worker in South Africa | |
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| Lepisiota canescens worker from Madagascar | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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 | |
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Acantholepis Mayr, 1861 | |
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]
Species
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Lepisiota". AntCat. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
- ^ "Genus: Lepisiota". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Browsing ants". Agriculture and Food. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
- ^ "Browsing ant". National pest & disease outbreaks. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
External links
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