| Authorship | Karavaiev, 1912b: 586 | 
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| Forms | w.q. | 
| Bioregion | Palearctic | 
| Locality | GREECE (Crete) | 
| Primary type information | Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: workers, queen Greece: Crete I., vic. Kanea, on the shore, 13.iii.1910 (T. Shebunin & N. Tshebotarev), workers with same data but 5.iii.1910. Primary type depositories: NMAS, SIZK. Primary type specimen: CASENT0917322. | 
| Type notes | 1) Martynov & Radchenko, 2016: 246, cite 7 worker syntypes in NMAS (plus 403 workers in alcohol). 2) Radchenko et al., 2025: 471, cite 2 syntype workers in SIZK. | 
| Acantholepis frauenfeldi splendens | Subspecies | 
Obsolete combination
 an obsolete combination of Lepisiota splendens (Karavaiev, 1912) 
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Original combination | 
| Lepisiota splendens | Species | 
Synonym
 junior synonym of current valid taxon Lepisiota nigra (Dalla Torre, 1893) 
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