• [First available use of Acantholepis frauenfeldi melas karawaiewi Santschi, 1917d; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• [Misspelled as karavaievi by Karavaiev, 1926e: 188.]
• [Misspelled as karawaievi by Pisarski, 1967a: 410.]
• [Misspelled as karawajewi by Dlussky et al., 1990: 163; Collingwood, 1993b: 195, and others.]
• Combination in Lepisiota: Bolton, 1995b: 227.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1925d: 26; Karavaiev, 1926e: 188.
• Junior synonym of Lepisiota nigra: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929c: 483.
• [Note: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929c: 483 gives Lepisiota karawaiewi as senior synonym, but Lepisiota nigra has priority.]
• Junior synonym of Lepisiota semenovi: Dlussky et al., 1990: 163; Bolton, 1995b: 227.
• Status as species: Pisarski, 1967a: 410; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 57; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 281 (in key); Collingwood, 1993b: 195; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 366; Petrov, 2006: 105 (in key); Legakis, 2011: 24; Collingwood et al., 2011: 465; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 507; Borowiec, 2014: 94; Sharaf et al., 2016: 9 (in key); Khalili-Moghadam et al., 2019: 170; Sharaf et al., 2020: 132 (in key).

Obsolete combinations

• Acantholepis frauenfeldi karawaiewi
• Acantholepis frauenfeldi karawajewi
• Lepisiota frauenfeldi karawajewi

Citations

• Agosti, D.; Collingwood, C. A. 1987a. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) and a key to the worker caste. I. Synonymic list. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60:51-62. PDF
• Agosti, D.; Collingwood, C. A. 1987b. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) with a key to the worker caste. II. Key to the worker caste, including the European species without the Iberian. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60:261-293. PDF
• 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
• Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2012. Ants of Greece – checklist, comments and new faunistic data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 23 (4):461-563. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A. 1993b. A comparative study of the ant fauna of five Greek islands. Biologia Gallo-Hellenica 20:191-197. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A.; Agosti, D. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15:300-385. PDF
• 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
• Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S.; Zabelin, S. I. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. [In Russian.]. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1926e. Beiträge zur Ameisenfauna des Kaukasus, nebst einigen Bemerkungen über andere palaearktische Formen. (Schluss). Konowia 5:187-199. PDF
• Khalili-Moghadam, A.; Borowiec, L.; Nemati, A. 2019. New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari Province of Iran with taxonomic comments. Polish Journal of Entomology 88 (2):163-182. 10.2478/pjen-2019-0013 PDF
• Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1929c. Die Gattung Acantholepis in Turkestan. Zoologischer Anzeiger 82:477-492. PDF
• Legakis, A. 2011. Annotated list of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Greece. Hellenic Zoological Archives 7:1-55. PDF
• Petrov, I. 2006. The ants of Serbia and Montenegro. [In Serbian.]. Posebna Izdanja. Srpska Akademija Nauka i Umetnosti 656:1-136. PDF
• Pisarski, B. 1967a. Fourmis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) d'Afghanistan récoltées par M. Dr. K. Lindberg. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 24:375-425. 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