Contents Miscellaneous ants - Iran
SUBFAMILY FORMICINAE - Genus Lepisiota
Lepisiota karawaiewi (Kuznetsov-Ugamsky)

Lepisiota karawaiewi (Kuznetsov-Ugamsky)

return to listIran list {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Turkestan (Acantholepis Frauenfeldi Mayr stirps melas Em. var. Karawaiewi n. var., Santschi, 1917d: 44, all forms; A. frauenfeldi karawaiewi Santschi, 1917, in Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929c: 483, illustrated; raised to species by Pisarski, 1967: 410) Dillak and Kakoud, collector Karawaiew - see below.

Santschi's (1917d) description is on {original description}. Kuznetsov-Ugamsky's (1929c) illustrated description is on {original description} . Pisarski (1967: 410) listed "Acantholepis karawaiewi Santschi, 1917 stat. nov." from locations in Afghanistan.

{Lepisiota karawaiewi}Agosti & Collingwood (1987a: 56) listed it as expected from the Balkan peninsula, separating it in a key (1987b: 280) as being mainly dark, the alitrunk and head closely sculptured giving a near matt appearance.
Lepisiota karawaiewiThe photomontage of a syntype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0912405

Oxford University Museum specimens

Lepisiota karawaiewi
B Taylor det.

 Iran
R Afshari
28
 15.vii.2014
31.04°N
51.56°E
2249 m
 Bideh, Semirom, Isfahan
hand collected
mountain, on ground
1620h
 1
 {album}

{Lepisiota karawaiewi} The photomontage is of a worker from Iran, collected by R Afshari (28).

© 2016, 2017 - Brian Taylor CBiol FRSB FRES
11, Grazingfield, Wilford, Nottingham, NG11 7FN, U.K.

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