Summary description from Wikipedia:

Lepisiota in languages:

Afrikaans

Swartmiere

Chinese

鱗山蟻

Chinese

刺結蟻屬

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Parent Taxon

• Formicidae

Sibling Taxa

• Acropyga
• Agraulomyrmex
• Anoplolepis
• Aphomomyrmex
• Bregmatomyrma
• Lepisiota
• Petalomyrmex
• Plagiolepis
• Tapinolepis

Child Taxa

• Lepisiota alexis
• Lepisiota annandalei
• Lepisiota arenaria
• Lepisiota arnoldi
• Lepisiota bipartita
• Lepisiota canescens
• Lepisiota capensis
• Lepisiota carbonaria
• Lepisiota crinita
• Lepisiota dendrophila
• Lepisiota depressa
• Lepisiota egregia
• Lepisiota elegantissima
• Lepisiota foreli
• Lepisiota frauenfeldi
• Lepisiota gracilicornis
• Lepisiota hirsuta
• Lepisiota imperfecta
• Lepisiota incisa
• Lepisiota integra
• Lepisiota kabulica
• Lepisiota longinoda
• Lepisiota lunaris
• Lepisiota melas
• Lepisiota minima
• Lepisiota minuta
• Lepisiota modesta
• Lepisiota monardi
• Lepisiota nigra
• Lepisiota quadraticeps
• Lepisiota rothneyi
• Lepisiota rubrovaria
• Lepisiota semenovi
• Lepisiota sericea
• Lepisiota silvicola
• Lepisiota spinosior
• Lepisiota submetallica
• Lepisiota syriaca
• Lepisiota validiuscula

Top Observation Places

• Pune
• Shivaji Nagar
• Malkajgiri