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SUBFAMILY FORMICINAE - Genus Lepisiota - Lepisiota splendens (Karavaiev)

Lepisiota splendens (Karavaiev)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Greece (Acantholepis frauenfeldi Mayr var splendens nova, Karavaiev, 1912b: 586, worker & queen; raised to species by Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 57) Crete.

WORKER - TL 2.5 mm; scapes long SI > 190; petiole narrow, very shiny; propodeum with distinct spines; brown-black, appendages more brown.

Karavaiev's (1912b) description is on {original description}

Egypt records - (Finzi, 1936: 186) sent to Finzi by Andres, series of workers from Heliopolis, xi.1930, identical to type from Crete & Corfu.

{Lepisiota splendens}The photomontage of a worker from the BMNH collection is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0906265.
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