Lepisiota capensis

Small black sugar ant
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Genus:	Lepisiota
Species:	T. capensis
Binomial name
Lepisiota capensis (Mayr, 1862)
Subspecies
13. See text

Milking plant lice on a Cussonia leaf

Lepisiota capensis, commonly known as the small black sugar ant, is an Old World ant in the subfamily Formicinae. It is found in countries of the Afrotropical, Malagasy, Oriental, and Palaearctic regions.

Subspecies

• Lepisiota capensis acholli Weber, 1943 – Sudan
• Lepisiota capensis anceps Forel, 1916 – DRC, Kenya
• Lepisiota capensis guineensis Mayr, 1902 – Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya
• Lepisiota capensis issore Weber, 1943 – Sudan
• Lepisiota capensis junodi Forel, 1916 – South Africa
• Lepisiota capensis laevis Santschi, 1913 – Senegal
• Lepisiota capensis lunaris Emery, 1893 – Sri Lanka
• Lepisiota capensis minuta Forel, 1916 – South Africa
• Lepisiota capensis simplex Forel, 1892 – Kenya, Lesotho, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, India
• Lepisiota capensis simplicoides Forel, 1907 – South Africa
• Lepisiota capensis specularis Santschi, 1935 – DRC
• Lepisiota capensis subopaciceps Santschi, 1937 – Angola
• Lepisiota capensis thoth Weber, 1943 – Sudan

References

• http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=577087
• http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Lepisiota_capensis/classification/#Lepisiota_capensis

External links

• Media related to Lepisiota capensis at Wikimedia Commons
• "Lepisiota capensis - Facts". AntWeb. Retrieved 19 January 2014. 
• "Lepisiota capensis".  at antwiki.org