Lepisiota

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Lepisiota
Lepisiota canescens casent0082616 profile 1.jpg
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

Diversity[1]
81 species
Synonyms

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[]

  • Xu, 1994
  • (Santschi, 1937)
  • (Bernard, 1953)
  • (Santschi, 1935)
  • (Santschi, 1937)
  • (Santschi, 1935)
  • (Santschi, 1937)
  • (Mukerjee, 1930)
  • (Collingwood, 1985)
  • (Arnold, 1920)
  • (Forel, 1913)
  • (Karavaiev, 1933)
  • (Smith, 1861)
  • (Stitz, 1916)
  • Lepisiota canescens (Emery, 1897)
  • Lepisiota capensis (Mayr, 1862)
  • (Forel, 1913)
  • (Emery, 1892)
  • (Wheeler, 1935)
  • (Mayr, 1895)
  • (Emery, 1897)
  • Collingwood & Agosti, 1996
  • (Arnold, 1949)
  • (Emery, 1897)
  • (Stitz, 1911)
  • (Santschi, 1914)
  • Collingwood & Agosti, 1996
  • (Forel, 1911)
  • (Forel, 1913)
  • Collingwood & Van Harten, 2011
  • (Kutter, 1932)
  • (Forel, 1910)
  • (Forel, 1895)
  • (Arnold, 1920)
  • (Mayr, 1855) ("browsing ant" - a pest in Australia[4][5])
  • (Santschi, 1915)
  • (Forel, 1892)
  • Collingwood & Agosti, 1996
  • Terayama, 2009
  • (Santschi, 1914)
  • (Santschi, 1926)
  • (Forel, 1913)
  • (Pisarski, 1967)
  • (Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929)
  • (Arnold, 1920)
  • (Weber, 1943)
  • (Emery, 1915)
  • (Emery, 1915)
  • (Arnold, 1946)
  • (Forel, 1894)
  • (Santschi, 1930)
  • (Karavaiev, 1912)
  • (Santschi, 1935)
  • (Emery, 1899)
  • (Emery, 1901)
  • (Santschi, 1935)
  • (Forel, 1892)
  • (Finzi, 1936)
  • (Santschi, 1935)
  • (Santschi, 1935)
  • (Arnold, 1944)
  • Xu, 1994
  • Collingwood & Agosti, 1996
  • (Forel, 1894)
  • (Forel, 1910)
  • (Santschi, 1930)
  • (Santschi, 1935)
  • (Ruzsky, 1905)
  • (Forel, 1892)
  • (Arnold, 1920)
  • (Menozzi, 1927)
  • (Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929)
  • (Forel, 1913)
  • (Karavaiev, 1912)
  • (Arnold, 1920)
  • (André, 1881)
  • (Santschi, 1935)
  • (Emery, 1897)
  • (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.

External links[]

  • Media related to Lepisiota at Wikimedia Commons

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