Contents Miscellaneous ants - Iran
SUBFAMILY FORMICINAE - Genus Lepisiota
Lepisiota semenovi (Ruzsky)

Lepisiota semenovi (Ruzsky)

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return to listIran list {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Turkmenistan (Acantholepis frauenfeldi semenovi, Ruzsky, 1905: 485, illustrated, worker; ssp of frauenfeldi in Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929c: 485; raised to species Pisarski, 1967: 410 - without comments - & Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 235) Boudja nr Smyrna - no type images on Antweb (September 2015).


Lepisiota semenoviTL 2.6-3.5 mm; head square; with sparse erect pilosity; very finely microscopically reticulate but shiny; gaster black or black-brown, alitrunk red or yellow-red also most of legs, head and coxae dark red; KI 0.65 - 1.58 - 0.0 - 0.23 .
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky's (1929c) description (from Ruzsky, 1905) of semenovi is on {original description}.


Lepisiota semenoviDlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin (1990) works (in Russian)  list a long list of junior synonyms, see {original description} . Their Fig. 55, 2, however, shows a petiole shape that is not that of semenovi as drawn by Kuznetsov-Ugamsky and with no type images of semenovi, which probably would not show the petiole in any case, I prefer to revert to the Kuzanetsov-Ugamsky separations. Fig. 48 (right) shows a worker that is matched by those from Iran (below) in size, profile and head shape.


Oxford University Museum specimens

Lepisiota semenovi
B Taylor det.

Iran
R Nafisi
19
19.x.2012
36°12'N
57°40'E
Sabzevar-Khorasan
3206 ft
City Park
2
{album}
Lepisiota semenovi
B Taylor det.
Iran
Torabi
15
30.vi.2014
29.74721°N
52.63700°E
1733 m
Enghelab Park, Shiraz
hand collected
forest, under stone
12.00 h
3
{album}
Lepisiota semenovi
B Taylor det.
Iran
V H Kia
27
1.viii.2014
34.25°N
50.99°E
1996 m
Veshnaveh, Qom
hand collected
village, on ground
1230h
1
{album}

{Lepisiota semenovi} The photomontage is of a worker from Iran, collected by R Nafisi (19). Appears to conform to the type description and drawings.


{Lepisiota semenovi} The photomontage is of a worker from Iran, collected by R Torabi (15).


{Lepisiota semenovi} The photomontage is of a worker from Iran, collected by V H Kia (27).

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