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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
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Lepisiota
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Lepisiota melas
Lepisiota
melas
(Emery, 1915)
valid
Acantholepis frauenfeldi var. melas
Emery, 1915f
: 3 (w.) GREECE (Rhodes). Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”). Primary type locality: Greece: Rhodes I. (
E. Festa
). Primary type depository:
MSNG
.
Finzi, 1932a
: 25 (q.);
Finzi, 1939c
: 158 (m.);
Borowiec & Salata, 2022
: 235 (q.)
Combination in
Lepisiota
:
Bolton, 1995b
: 228.
Subspecies of
Lepisiota frauenfeldi
:
Santschi, 1917d
: 44;
Emery, 1921b
: 208;
Emery, 1925d
: 26;
Karavaiev, 1926e
: 188;
Finzi, 1932a
: 24;
Santschi, 1934d
: 280;
Grandi, 1935
: 102;
Menozzi, 1936b
: 298;
Hamann & Klemm, 1976
: 673.
Status as species:
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a
: 57;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b
: 281 (in key);
Collingwood, 1993b
: 195;
Bolton, 1995b
: 228;
Petrov, 2006
: 105 (in key);
Legakis, 2011
: 24;
Borowiec & Salata, 2012
: 507;
Kiran & Karaman, 2012
: 14;
Borowiec, 2014
: 94;
Lebas
et al.
, 2016
: 226;
Salata & Borowiec, 2018c
: 46;
Borowiec & Salata, 2022
: 234 (redescription).
Obsolete combinations
Acantholepis frauenfeldi melas
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
Borowiec, L.
;
Salata, S.
2022.
A monographic review of ants of Greece (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Vol. 1. Introduction and review of all subfamilies except the subfamily Myrmicinae. Part 1: text.
Bytom: Natural History Monographs of the Upper Silesian Museum, 1-297.
PDF
Collingwood, C. A.
1993b.
A comparative study of the ant fauna of five Greek islands.
Biologia Gallo-Hellenica 20:191-197.
PDF
Emery, C.
1915f.
Escursioni zoologiche del Dr. Enrico Festa nell'Isola di Rodi. XII. Formiche.
Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino 30(701):1-7.
PDF
Emery, C.
1921b.
Formiche raccolte a Budrum (Anatolia) da Raffaele Varriale, Cap. medico nella R. Marina.
Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 49[=(3)9]:208-218.
PDF
Emery, C.
1925d.
Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae.
Genera Insectorum 183:1-302.
PDF
Finzi, B.
1932a.
Sopra alcune formiche dell'Isola di Rodi.
Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 64:24-27.
PDF
Finzi, B.
1939c.
Ergebnisse der von Franz Werner und Otto v. Wettstein auf den Ägäischen Inseln unternommenen Sammelreisen. Ameisen.
Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse. Abteilung I 148:153-161.
PDF
Grandi, G.
1935.
Contributi alla conoscenza degli Imenotteri Aculeati. XV.
Bollettino [del Reale Istituto] dell'Istituto di Entomologia della Università degli Studi di Bologna 8:27-121.
PDF
Hamann, H. H. F.
;
Klemm, W.
1976.
Ergebnisse der von Dr. O. Paget und Dr. E. Kritscher auf Rhodos durchgeführten zoologischen Exkursionen. XVI. Formicidae.
Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 80:669-679.
PDF
Karavaiev, V.
1926e.
Beiträge zur Ameisenfauna des Kaukasus, nebst einigen Bemerkungen über andere palaearktische Formen. (Schluss).
Konowia 5:187-199.
PDF
Kiran, K.
;
Karaman, C.
2012.
First annotated checklist of the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Zootaxa 3548:1-38.
PDF
Lebas, C.
;
Galkowski, C.
;
Blatrix, R.
;
Wegnez, P.
2016.
Guide Delachaux: Fourmis d’Europe occidentale.
Luçon: Delachaux et Niestlé, 415 pp.
Legakis, A.
2011.
Annotated list of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Greece.
Hellenic Zoological Archives 7:1-55.
PDF
Menozzi, C.
1936b.
Nuovi contributi alla conoscenza della fauna delle Isole italiane dell'Egeo. VI. Hymenoptera - Formicidae.
Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 29:262-311.
PDF
Petrov, I.
2006.
The ants of Serbia and Montenegro. [In Serbian.].
Posebna Izdanja. Srpska Akademija Nauka i Umetnosti 656:1-136.
PDF
Salata, S.
;
Borowiec, L.
2018c.
Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Greek ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology 27 (008):1-51.
10.5281/zenodo.2199191
PDF
Santschi, F.
1917d.
Acantholepis
Frauenfeldi
Mayr et ses variétés.
Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 8:42-48.
PDF
Santschi, F.
1934d.
Fourmis d'une croisière.
Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 74:273-282.
PDF
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