Lepisiota elegantissima

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Lepisiota elegantissima Collingwood & Van Harten, 2011 valid

Lepisiota elegantissima Collingwood & Van Harten, 2011: 464, pl. 108-109 (w.) UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: United Arab Emirates: Wadi Maidaq (25°18’N, 56°07’E), 26.x.-9.xi.2006 (A. van Harten). Primary type depository: NNML. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 6 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: 5 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 1 paratype worker with same data but 15-31.x.2010. Secondary type depositories: NNML, WMLC.

Status as species: Borowiec, 2014: 93; Sharaf et al., 2016: 8 (in key); Sharaf et al., 2020: 132 (in key).

Citations

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.; Van Harten, A. 2011. [Untitled. Lepisiota elegantissima Collingwood & van Harten nov. spec.]. Pp. 464-465 in: Collingwood, C. A.; Agosti, D.; Sharaf, M. R.; van Harten, A. 2011. Order Hymenoptera, family Formicidae. Arthropod Fauna of the UAE 4:405-474. 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

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