Lepisiota carbonaria ( Emery, 1892 )

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scientific name	Lepisiota carbonaria ( Emery, 1892 )
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Lepisiota carbonaria ( Emery, 1892) View in CoL

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Acantholepis carbonaria Emery, 1892, p. 119 View in CoL (w.q.) Somalia. Afrotropic.

Diagnosis

Worker. Colour uniform black, black-brown or reddish; propodeal spines acute; mesosoma with a single pair of setae on pronotum; petiole spines distinctly long, about as long as half their intervening width; head and mesosoma finely and distinctly punctate, general appearance slightly shining.

Material examined. Five sites: 4; 7; 8; 9; 15.

Geographic range. Originally described from Somalia, this species has been reported from the KSA, Oman and Yemen ( Collingwood 1985; Collingwood and Agosti 1996).

Ecology and biology. Unknown.

References

Collingwood CA. 1985. Hymenoptera: fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arabia. 7: 230 - 302. doi: 10.5281 / zenodo. 26692.

Collingwood CA, Agosti D. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna Saudi Arabia. 15: 300 - 385.

Emery C. 1892. Sopra alcune formiche raccolte dall'Ingegnere L. Bricchetti Robecchi nel paese dei Somali. Ann Mus Civ St Nat. 32 (( 2) 12): 110 - 122. doi: 10.5281 / zenodo. 25431.