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Lepisiota Santschi, 1926 valid feminine
Lepisiota Santschi, 1926a: 15 [as subgenus of Acantholepis Mayr, 1861] Type-species: Plagiolepis rothneyi (obsolete combination of Lepisiota rothneyi), by original designation.
Obsolete classifications
Subgenera
Genus Lepisiota catalogues

Roger, 1863b: 11; Mayr, 1863a: 394; Emery & Forel, 1879: 453 (Europe); Dalla Torre, 1893: 171; Wheeler, 1922: 934, 1036 (Afrotropical, Malagasy); Emery, 1925d: 23; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 209 (Asia); Bolton, 1995b: 226; Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 292 (Afrotropical checklist). [Note: references prior to 1995 refer to the genus as Acantholepis.]

Genus Lepisiota references

Mayr, 1865: 9 (diagnosis); Forel, 1878c: 378 (diagnosis); André, 1882c: 210 (Europe & Algeria species key); Forel, 1892a: 41 (all species key); Forel, 1894c: 411 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 315 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Arnold, 1920a: 554 (diagnosis, South Africa species key); Wheeler, 1922: 214 (diagnosis); Emery, 1925d: 23 (diagnosis); Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929c: 480 (Turkestan species key); Finzi, 1936: 188 (Egypt species key); Collingwood, 1985: 292 (Saudi Arabia species key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 281 (Balkans species key); Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 205 (Bulgaria species key); Xu, 1994c: 232 (China species key); Arakelian, 1994: 80 (Armenia species key); Bolton, 1994: 51 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 128 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 363 (Saudi Arabia species key); Zhou, 2001a: 167 (China, Guangxi species key); Sharaf et al., 2016: 1875 (Arabian species key); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 291 (diagnosis); Cantone, 2017: 160 (brief male diagnosis); Sharaf et al., 2020: 131 (Arabian Peninsula species key); Wachkoo et al., 2021: 228 (worker diagnosis, synoptic list of India species), 243 (India species key); Harshana & Dey, 2022: 4 (worker diagnosis, India species list, key to India species (workers)); Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 224 (diagnosis), 225 (key to Greece species), 229 (Lepisiota frauenfeldi complex distribution, description, biology); Jarernkong et al., 2023: 3 (worker diagnosis), 12 (Thailand worker key). [Note: references prior to 1995 refer to the genus as Acantholepis.]

Citations

Extant: 102 valid species, 45 valid subspecies

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