The Ants of Africa
Genus Lepisiota
Lepisiota anceps (Forel) - new status

Petiole with short spines

Body colour black; with pale short, erect hairs - depilis-group

Lepisiota anceps (Forel) new status

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Zaïre (Acantholepis capensis Mayr v. anceps n. var, Forel, 1916: 438, worker)
worker only described .


Forel's (1916) brief description is at {original description}. WORKER - TL 2.4-2.7 mm; pilosity as on depilis; petiole scale and propodeum as with simplex; from Congo, collected by H Kohl, nesting in the ground.

The combination of characters, by extrapolation seems to be - [like simplex] metanotum [propodeum] simply enlarged and angular posteriorly; petiole scale feebly scalloped without teeth ; [like depilis] moderately abundant yellowish-white pilosity, pubescence sparse white appressed.


{Lepisiota anceps}The photomontage of a type collection worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0905156


Oxford University Museum specimens

Lepisiota anceps
B Taylor det.

Nigeria
Z Klein



21.iii.2006
not known

On yams imported into Israel
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{Lepisiota anceps ?}The photomontage is of a specimen from Nigeria, found on imported yams in Israel, courtesy of Armin Ionescu, Tel Aviv University. This seems just different enough from Lepisiota obtusa to be anceps; i.e the wider head, etc. The general shape appears similar to the type collection worker shown above (June 2013) although the amount of pilosity and pubescence appears more abundant.

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