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SUBFAMILY FORMICINAE - Genus Lepisiota
Lepisiota erythraea (Forel)

Petiole with short spines

Body colour dark, usually black; TL > 2.2 mm; erect hairs relatively short, dark coloured, may be sparse - capensis-group

Lepisiota erythraea (Forel)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Eritrea (Acantholepis carbonaria Em. var. erythraea n. var., Forel, 1910c: 265 worker & queen; raised to species, Collingwood, 1985: 295) - see below

Worker and queen only described (type location Ethiopia in Bolton, 1995) .

Forel's (1910c) description is on {original description}.

{Lepisiota erythraea}The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0909880.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Lepisiota erythraea
B Taylor det.

 Egypt
M James
2001-02b

 2001
Sinai
28°33' N
33°56' E
 St Katherine protectorate around the town of St Katherine, in mountains above 1500m


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{Lepisiota erythraea}The photomontage is of workers collected in the Sinai Desert, Egypt, St Katherine protectorate around the town of St Katherine, in mountains above 1500m, in early 2001, by Mike James, a research student of Francis Gilbert.

{Lepisiota erythraea}Second specimen from St Katherine protectorate

© 2006 - Brian Taylor CBiol FRSB FRES
11, Grazingfield, Wilford, Nottingham, NG11 7FN, U.K.

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