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