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SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Lepisiota
Lepisiota hirsuta
(Santschi)

Petiole with short spines

Body colour black - with abundant erect pale hairs crinita-group

Lepisiota hirsuta (Santschi)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Kenya (Acantholepis capensis stirps hirsuta, Santschi, 1914b: 124, illustrated, worker, raised to species by Santschi, 1935a: 273) - see below
subspecies setosella (Santschi, 1935, not illustrated) from Zaïre, Boma, 9.ix.1920, H Schouteden - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0912391
unavailable name elevata (Acantholepis capensis Mayr r. hirsuta Sant. v. elevata n. var., Forel, 1914d: 249, worker) from Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, 15.iii.1914, G Arnold - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0909875
worker only .


{Lepisiota hirsuta}Santschi's (1914b) description is on {original description}. Forel's (1914d) description of elevata is on {original description}. A translation by Arnold (1920a) is at {original description}.

Santschi (1935a) had a record of the type from Basongo, Zaïre (Dr Schouteden, 15.vii.1921) and described setosella, from Boma and Kwamouth (Dr Schouteden; 8.x.1920 and vi.1921), plus Conga da Lemba (R. Mayné, x.1913).

Santschi's (1935a) description of setosella follows -
WORKER - TL 2.5-2.7 mm; differs from type by more shiny sculpturation. Propodeum less strongly reticulate, with sides of dorsum less divergent, angles slightly less prominent; otherwise as the East African hirsuta. He also implies the variety elevata Forel (noted by Bolton, 1995, as an unavailable name) probably was a subspecies of hirsuta rather than a distinct species.

Apart from minor differences in overall size, the two subspecies appear identical to the type (see Antweb links, above).


{Lepisiota hirsuta}The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0912390


Oxford University Museum specimens

Lepisiota hirsuta
B Taylor det.

Egypt
M James
2002-01
2002
Sinai
28°33' N
33°56' E
St Katherine protectorate around the town of St Katherine, in mountains above 1500m


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{album}
Lepisiota hirsuta
B Taylor det.

Egypt
A Shepherd
Alcohol E

2010
Sinai
28°33' N
33°56' E
St Katherine protectorate around the town of St Katherine, in mountains above 1500m


i
{album}
Lepisiota hirsuta
B Taylor det.

Egypt
A Shepherd
Nest 04
2010
Sinai
28°33' N
33°56' E
St Katherine protectorate around the town of St Katherine, in mountains above 1500m


i
{album}
Lepisiota hirsuta
B Taylor det.

Egypt
A Shepherd
Nest 05

2010
Sinai
28°33' N
33°56' E
St Katherine protectorate around the town of St Katherine, in mountains above 1500m


i
{album}
Lepisiota hirsuta
B Taylor det.

Egypt
A Shepherd
Nest 12

2010
Sinai
28°33' N
33°56' E
St Katherine protectorate around the town of St Katherine, in mountains above 1500m


i
{album}
Lepisiota hirsuta
B Taylor det.

Egypt
A Shepherd
Nest 16

2010
Sinai
28°33' N
33°56' E
St Katherine protectorate around the town of St Katherine, in mountains above 1500m


i
{album}
Lepisiota hirsuta
B Taylor det.

Egypt
A Shepherd
Other B

2010
Sinai
28°33' N
33°56' E
St Katherine protectorate around the town of St Katherine, in mountains above 1500m


i
{album}
Lepisiota hirsuta
B Taylor det.

Egypt
A Shepherd
Plant 69

2010
Sinai
28°33' N
33°56' E
St Katherine protectorate around the town of St Katherine, in mountains above 1500m


i
{album}
Lepisiota hirsuta
B Taylor det.

Egypt
A Shepherd
Plant 60

2010
Sinai
28°33' N
33°56' E
St Katherine protectorate around the town of St Katherine, in mountains above 1500m


i
{album}

{Lepisiota hirsuta}The photomontages are of workers collected in the Sinai Desert, Egypt, St Katherine protectorate around the town of St Katherine, in mountains above 1500m, in early 2002, by Mike James, a research student of Francis Gilbert.


{Lepisiota hirsuta}The photomontage is of a second worker


{Lepisiota hirsuta}The photomontage is of a worker collected by Amy Shepherd (Sinai Other B).

©2005, 2006, 2015 - Brian Taylor CBiol FRSB FRES
11, Grazingfield, Wilford, Nottingham, NG11 7FN, U.K.

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