Acantholepis capensis depilis
Acantholepis capensis depilis | |
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Scientific classification (junior synonym of Lepisiota carbonaria) | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Plagiolepidini |
Genus: | Lepisiota |
Species: | Acantholepis capensis depilis Emery, 1897 |
This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Lepisiota carbonaria.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- depilis. Acantholepis capensis subsp. depilis Emery, 1897e: 602 (w.q.) SOMALIA.
- Combination in Lepisiota: Bolton, 1995b: 227.
- Subspecies of capensis: Santschi, 1914b: 126 (in key); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 937; Emery, 1925b: 24.
- Status as species: Collingwood, 1985: 294; Bolton, 1995b: 227; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 365; Borowiec, L. 2014: 92; Sharaf, Monks, et al. 2016: 11 (in key).
- Junior synonym of carbonaria: Sharaf et al., 2020: 141.
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 227, Combination in Lepisiota)
- Collingwood, C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arab. 7: 230-302 (page 294, Raised to species)
- Emery, C. 1897f. Formiche raccolte da Don Eugenio dei Principi Ruspoli, durante l'ultimo suo viaggio nelle regioni dei Somali e dei Galla. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. 38[=(2(18): 595-605 (page 602, worker, queen described)
- Sharaf, M.R., Aldawood, A.S., Mohamed, A.A., Hita Garcia, F. 2020. The genus Lepisiota Santschi, 1926 of the Arabian Peninsula with the description of a new species, Lepisiota elbazi sp. nov. from Oman, an updated species identification key, and assessment of zoogeographic affinities. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 76: 127–152 (doi:10.3897/jhr.76.50193).