Lepisiota nigra (Dalla Torre)
  Type location Italy (Acantholepis
frauenfeldi var nigra Em., Dalla Torre, 1893: 171, all
forms;
species status Zimmermann, 1935: 45; confirmed by Agosti &
Collingwood, 1987a: 57) all forms described.
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 Dalla
Torre's (1893) paper simply provides a list of
names;
this is on  . The name nigra
is ascribed to Emery (1878b: 46; 1881b: 527; and it appears by letter
to Dalla Torre - this is on  . Karavaiev (1912a: 15)
referred to it in his description of Lepisiota nigrescens, this
is on  , his drawing of the petiole shape has
it as wider than that of nigrescens.
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 From Emery (1878b)
it seems clear that nigra was
assigned to black specimens from desert areas with workers TL 2.8-3.0
mm, possibly alternatively identifable as bipartita, which (in
Bolton, 1995: 326) remains as a subspecies of Lepisiota frauenfeldi. In his key, Finzi (1936: 188) noted - petiole scale large (bipartita
type); maximum width at about about double the depth of the incision of
the scale. Tarbinsky (1976: 129) considered nigra and frauenfeldi
kassanasi providing illustrations of the nigra
sexual stages; the text, however, is in Russian.
Emery (1881b: 572) reported it from Yemen, Aden.
Collingwood & Agosti (1996: 368) had records from Saudi Arabia,
Yemen and the United Arab Emirates.
Egypt records - Finzi (1936: 186) citing Menozzi
(1929e: 128), which was one worker from Sinai, at Wadi Tarfa, collected
by F S Bodenheimer; Emery record in Mohamed et al (2001).
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The photomontage
of the (presumably) type worker is collated
from