• Combination in Lepisiota: Bolton, 1995b: 227.
• Subspecies of Lepisiota capensis: Santschi, 1914b: 126 (in key); Wheeler, 1922: 937; Emery, 1925d: 24.
• Status as species: Collingwood, 1985: 294; Bolton, 1995b: 227; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 365; Borowiec, 2014: 92; Sharaf et al., 2016: 11 (in key).
• Junior synonym of Lepisiota carbonaria: Sharaf et al., 2020: 141.

Obsolete combinations

• Acantholepis capensis depilis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 7:230-302. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A.; Agosti, D. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15:300-385. PDF
• Emery, C. 1897f. Formiche raccolte da Don Eugenio dei Principi Ruspoli, durante l'ultimo suo viaggio nelle regioni dei Somali e dei Galla. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 38[=(2)18]:595-605. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1914b. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale, 1911-1912. Résultats scientifiques. Insectes Hyménoptères. II. Formicidae. Paris: Libr. A. Schulz, pp. 41-148. PDF
• Sharaf, M. R.; Monks, J.; Polaszek, A.; Aldawood, A. S. 2016. A remarkable new species of the genus Lepisiota Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Oman and the United Arab Emirates with a key to the Arabian species. Journal of Natural History 50 (29-30):1875-1887. 10.1080/00222933.2016.1180722 PDF
• Sharaf, M.R.; Aldawood, A.S.; Mohamed, A.A.; Hita Garcia, F. 2020. The genus Lepisiota Santschi, 1926 of the Arabian Peninsula with the description of a new species, Lepisiota elbazi sp. nov. from Oman, an updated species identification key, and assessment of zoogeographic affinities. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 76:127-152. 10.3897/jhr.76.50193 PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.