• Combination in Lepisiota: Bolton, 1995b: 227.
• Status as species: Forel, 1892a: 41 (in key; date of publication after 6.ii.1892); Dalla Torre, 1893: 171; Stitz, 1911b: 390; Karavaiev, 1911b: 9; Wheeler & Mann, 1916: 172; Wheeler, 1922: 216, 938; Emery, 1925d: 24; Menozzi, 1930b: 115; Finzi, 1939a: 159; Collingwood, 1985: 294; Bolton, 1995b: 227; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 365; Borowiec, 2014: 92 (see note in bibliography); Sharaf et al., 2016: 10 (in key); Sharaf et al., 2020: 134 (in key); Sharaf et al., 2022: 27; Sharaf et al., 2024: 1724.
• Senior synonym of Lepisiota depilis: Sharaf et al., 2020: 141.

Junior synonyms

• Lepisiota depilis (Emery, 1897)
  Obsolete combination(s): Acantholepis capensis depilis

Obsolete combinations

• Acantholepis carbonaria

Citations

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• Collingwood, C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 7:230-302. PDF
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• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Finzi, B. 1939a. Materiali zoologici dell'Eritrea raccolti da G. Müller durante la spedizione dell'Istituto Sieroterapico Milanese e conservati al Museo di Trieste. Parte III. Hymenoptera: Formicidae. Atti del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Trieste 14:153-168. PDF
• Forel, A. 1892a. Notes myrmécologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 36:38-43. PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1911b. Ameisen aus Aegypten und dem Sudan. Russkoe Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 11:1-12. PDF
• Menozzi, C. 1930b. Formiche della Somalia italiana meridionale. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 9:76-130. PDF
• Sharaf, M. R.; Monks, J.; Polaszek, A.; Aldawood, A. S. 2016. A remarkable new species of the genus Lepisiota Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Oman and the United Arab Emirates with a key to the Arabian species. Journal of Natural History 50 (29-30):1875-1887. 10.1080/00222933.2016.1180722 PDF
• Sharaf, M. R.; Wetterer, J. K.; Mohamed, A. A.; Aldawood, A. S. 2022. Faunal composition, diversity, and distribution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Dhofar Governorate, Oman, with updated list of the Omani species and remarks on zoogeography. European Journal of Taxonomy 838:1-106. 10.5852/ejt.2022.838.1925 PDF
• Sharaf, M. R.; Wetterer, J. K.; Mohamed, A. M. A.; Georgiadis, C.; Nasser, M. G.; Aldawood, A. S. 2024. Filling gaps in global myrmecology: ants of the Kingdom of Bahrain (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 58 (41-44):1705-1786. [online early] 10.1080/00222933.2024.2388791 PDF
• 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. 10.3897/jhr.76.50193 PDF
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• Wheeler, W. M.; Mann, W. M. 1916. The ants of the Phillips Expedition to Palestine during 1914. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60:167-174. PDF