Lepisiota integrisquama

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Lepisiota integrisquama
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Plagiolepidini
Genus: Lepisiota
Species: L. integrisquama
Binomial name
Lepisiota integrisquama
(Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929)

Pashaei Rad et al. (2018) found this species in Iran in a low to very low rainfall forest.

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Iran, Kazakhstan (type locality).

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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • integrisquama. Acantholepis frauenfeldi subsp. integrisquama Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929c: 486, fig. 8 (w.) KAZAKHSTAN.
    • Combination in Lepisiota: Bolton, 1995b: 227.
    • Junior synonym of semenovi: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 165; Bolton, 1995b: 227.
    • Status as species: Pashaei Rad et al., 2018: 6

Taxonomic Notes

Pashaei Rad et al. (2018): Type location Kazakhstan, no type images but type drawings. Original name Acantholepis frauenfeldi integrisquama Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929: placed as a junior synonym of Lepisiota semenovi by Dlussky, Soyunov, and Zabelin (1990). This has a slightly different shaped head in full-face view, a near straight upper margin to the petiole and quite abundant erect hairs on the dorsal alitrunk.

Note that Bolton (in his unpublished An online catalogue of the ants of the world, 15 Feb. 2020) does not recognise the species status proposed by Pashaei Rad et al. (2018), noting that "the entries in this publication are omitted from the catalogue as it contains numerous nomenclatural errors; it also ignores previous taxonomic decisions, and entirely fails to apply ICZN rules that govern the availability of names in the species-group."

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