# 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 xichangensis (Wu & Wang, 1995)