Lepisiota incisa

Identification
Sharaf et al. (2020) - Collingwood (1985)’s key mentioned that the mesosomal pilosity is restricted to the pronotum or nil but examination of the type material (CASENT0909876) reveals abundant mesosomal and body pilosity.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Saudi Arabia.

Biology
Sorger et al. (2016) - Lepisota incisa has been reported from Kruger National Park, South Africa, where it is thought to have arrived in the 1990s (Sithole et al. 2010). There the species is most abundant in habitats associated with human disturbance and development, where it is behaviorally dominant to all other ants, including endemics. Judging from the slight, if any, aggressive response toward ants transferred between sites hundreds of kilometers apart around Kruger (Caldera 2004, cited in Sithole et al. 2010), it appears that Kruger is occupied by a single supercolony—presumably derived from the initial invading colony that arrived and spread widely within a region previously uninhabited by the species. At a single site, however, the workers were hostile to con-specifics from elsewhere in the park (Sithole et al. 2010), indicating that a second supercolony may have become established.

Nomenclature

 *  incisa. Acantholepis capensis r. incisa Forel, 1913b: 338 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. Combination in Lepisiota: Bolton, 1995b: 227. Raised to species: Collingwood, 1985: 295.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection
 * Medler J. T. 1980: Insects of Nigeria - Check list and bibliography. Mem. Amer. Ent. Inst. 30: i-vii, 1-919.
 * Prins A. J. 1964. Revised list of the ants collected in the Kruger National Park. Koedoe 7: 77-93.
 * Weber N. A. 1943. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93: 263-389.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VIII. A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 711-1004