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Lepisiota caucasica
| Lepisiota caucasica | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Plagiolepidini |
| Genus: | Lepisiota |
| Species: | L. caucasica |
| Binomial name | |
| Lepisiota caucasica (Santschi, 1917) | |
Records of this species from Greece and Serbia need confirmation, and the group of bicoloured Lepisiota species needs revision (Borowiec, 2014).
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Azerbaijan, Türkiye.
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- caucasica. Acantholepis frauenfeldi var. caucasica Santschi, 1917d: 43 (w.) CAUCASUS.
- Combination in Lepisiota: Bolton, 1995b: 227.
- Subspecies of frauenfeldi: Emery, 1925b: 25.
- Junior synonym of frauenfeldi: Arakelian, 1994: 81.
- Status as species: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 281 (in key); Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 506; Borowiec, L. 2014: 92.
Description
References
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Bračko, G. 2019. New data on the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Azerbaijan. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 15, 165–175 (doi:10.23885/181433262019151-165175).
- Kiran, K., Karaman, C. 2020. Additions to the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoosystema 42(18), 285-329 (doi:10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a18).
- Snegovaya, N., Shigayev, C. 2021. A checklist of the ants (Insecta, Formicidae) of Azerbaijan Republic. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 17(2): 179-207 (doi:10.22067/ijab.2022.67343.1000).