Lepisiota

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 : 46

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.4314/ejnh.v3i1.30001
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treatment provided by	Christiana (2009-05-26 21:13:38, last updated by Donat 2016-02-17 08:23:05)
scientific name	Lepisiota
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Treatment

Genus Lepisiota HNS Santschi, 1926

Acantholepis Mayr HNS , 1861: Europ. Formicid.42.Wien.

Lepisiota HNS Santschi, 1926: Bolton, 1994, Identification guide to the ant genera of the world 222pp.

Type-species: Hypoclinea frauenfeldi Mayr HNS , 1855: Verh. Zool Bot. Ges. Wien. 5:378.

This genus has been known as Acantholepis Mayr HNS ,1861 for about 130 years but this name is a junior homonym of Acantholepis Krayr HNS , 1846. Lepisiota HNS Santschi, 1926 is the first available replacement name (Bolton, 1994). The new combination was then designated by Bolton five years later in the new general catalogue of the ants of the world (Bolton 1995).

Distribution: Palaearctic, Ethiopian & Oriental regions.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Formicidae

Lepisiota

Mohamed, S., Zalat, S. & Fadl, H. 2001

2001

Hypoclinea frauenfeldi

Mayr 1855

1855

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