Lepisiota

Lepisiota is an Old World genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. They nest in rotten wood, in standing trees or in the ground, generally in less forested areas.

==Species== Lepisiota acuta Xu, 1994 Lepisiota affinis (Santschi, 1937) Lepisiota ajjer (Bernard, 1953) Lepisiota albata (Santschi, 1935) Lepisiota alexis (Santschi, 1937) Lepisiota ambigua (Santschi, 1935) Lepisiota angolensis (Santschi, 1937) Lepisiota annandalei (Mukerjee, 1930) Lepisiota arabica (Collingwood, 1985) Lepisiota arenaria (Arnold, 1920) Lepisiota arnoldi (Forel, 1913) Lepisiota aurea (Karavaiev, 1933) Lepisiota bipartita (Smith, 1861) Lepisiota cacozela (Stitz, 1916) Lepisiota canescens (Emery, 1897) Lepisiota capensis (Mayr, 1862) Lepisiota capitata (Forel, 1913) Lepisiota carbonaria (Emery, 1892) Lepisiota chapmani (Wheeler, 1935) Lepisiota crinita (Mayr, 1895) Lepisiota curta (Emery, 1897) Lepisiota dammama Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 Lepisiota dendrophila (Arnold, 1949) Lepisiota depilis (Emery, 1897) Lepisiota deplanata (Stitz, 1911) Lepisiota depressa (Santschi, 1914) Lepisiota dhofara Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 Lepisiota dolabellae (Forel, 1911) Lepisiota egregia (Forel, 1913) Lepisiota elegantissima Collingwood & Van Harten, 2011 Lepisiota emmelii (Kutter, 1932) Lepisiota erythraea (Forel, 1910) Lepisiota fergusoni (Forel, 1895) Lepisiota foreli (Arnold, 1920) Lepisiota frauenfeldi (Mayr, 1855) ("browsing ant" - a pest in Australia) Lepisiota gerardi (Santschi, 1915) Lepisiota gracilicornis (Forel, 1892) Lepisiota harteni Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 Lepisiota hexiangu Terayama, 2009 Lepisiota hirsuta (Santschi, 1914) Lepisiota imperfecta (Santschi, 1926) Lepisiota incisa (Forel, 1913) Lepisiota kabulica (Pisarski, 1967) Lepisiota karawaiewi (Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929) Lepisiota longinoda (Arnold, 1920) Lepisiota megacephala (Weber, 1943) Lepisiota melanogaster (Emery, 1915) Lepisiota melas (Emery, 1915) Lepisiota mlanjiensis (Arnold, 1946) Lepisiota modesta (Forel, 1894) Lepisiota monardi (Santschi, 1930) Lepisiota nigrescens (Karavaiev, 1912) Lepisiota nigrisetosa (Santschi, 1935) Lepisiota nigriventris (Emery, 1899) Lepisiota obtusa (Emery, 1901) Lepisiota oculata (Santschi, 1935) Lepisiota opaca (Forel, 1892) Lepisiota opaciventris (Finzi, 1936) Lepisiota palpalis (Santschi, 1935) Lepisiota piliscapa (Santschi, 1935) Lepisiota quadraticeps (Arnold, 1944) Lepisiota reticulata Xu, 1994 Lepisiota riyadha Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 Lepisiota rothneyi (Forel, 1894) Lepisiota rubrovaria (Forel, 1910) Lepisiota rugithorax (Santschi, 1930) Lepisiota schoutedeni (Santschi, 1935) Lepisiota semenovi (Ruzsky, 1905) Lepisiota sericea (Forel, 1892) Lepisiota silvicola (Arnold, 1920) Lepisiota somalica (Menozzi, 1927) Lepisiota spinisquama (Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929) Lepisiota spinosior (Forel, 1913) Lepisiota splendens (Karavaiev, 1912) Lepisiota submetallica (Arnold, 1920) Lepisiota syriaca (André, 1881) Lepisiota tenuipilis (Santschi, 1935) Lepisiota validiuscula (Emery, 1897) Lepisiota vynia Fisher, 2025 Lepisiota xichangensis (Wu & Wang, 1995)