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SUBFAMILY FORMICINAE - Genus Lepisiota
Lepisiota pubescens (Forel) - new status

Petiole with long spines

Lepisiota pubescens (Forel) new status

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Tunisia (Acantholepis Frauenfeldi Mayr. var. pubescens n. var., Forel, 1892a: 41, in key, worker) collected at Gabès; worker only described .


{Lepisiota pubescens petiole}Forel's (1892a) description is on {original description}. Santschi's (1917d: 46) illustrated note in a key is on {original description}.

Assuming my diagnosis is correct, I have separated this from Lepisiota frauenfeldi which looks quite different, being black brown, brilliant, almost glabrous, covered with superficial and very fine striations ("rides"); mandibles, antennae except the apex of the scape, alitrunk, articulations of the femora and tarsi reddish yellow; often the alitrunk has several brown patches.

Not reported from Egypt but quite likely to be found there.


{Lepisiota pubescens}The photomontage of the holotype is collated fromhttp://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0913619.

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