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SUBFAMILY FORMICINAE - Genus Lepisiota
Lepisiota spinisquama Kuznetsov-Ugamsky

Lepisiota spinisquama Kuznetsov-Ugamsky

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return to listIran list {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Uzbekistan (Acantholepis frauenfeldi spinisquama nov. subsp. Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929c: 480, illustrated, worker; raised to species by Pisarski, 1967: 401, as Acantholepis spinnisquama, Aghanistan finding; most recent useage Lepisiota spinisquama by Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 369) collected at Kelta-Maschat, western Tian-Schan, 750 m asl (seemingly near Andizhan).


Lepisiota spinisquamaKuznetsov's (1929c) description is at {original description}.
Kuznetzov-Ugamsky, N.N. 1929. Die Gattung Acantholepis in Turkestan. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 82: 477-492.
Pisarski, B. 1967. Fourmis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) d'Afghanistan récoltées par M. Dr K. Lindberg. Annals of Zoology, 24: 375-425

The type photographs (below) appear to show the petiole as somewhat shorter relatively to width than in Kustnetsov's drawing.


{Lepisiota spinisquama}The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0912407


Oxford University Museum specimens

Lepisiota spinisquama
B Taylor det.
Iran
F Safariyan
11
4.ii.2014
35.45476°N
46.96285°E
Vahdat Dam
1500 m
pitfall trap; mountainside
1
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{Lepisiota spinisquama} The photomontage is of a worker from Iran, F Safariyan (11). Appears very similar to the type worker.

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