Keywords :
ants,
Formicinae,
taxonomy,
new species,
Southeast Asia
บทคัดย่อ :
Lepisiota Santschi, 1926 is one of the large ant genera, currently
comprising 94 species and 44 subspecies. It belongs to the subfamily Formicinae
and is distributed in the Old World. A new species, L. chutimae sp. n., is described
here from Nakhon Ratchasima Province based on the worker and queen castes. The
type series of the new species was collected from a shrub tree at about 3 m above
the ground in a primary dry evergreen forest at altitude 250 m.
เอกสารอ้างอิง :
Jaitrong, W., Waengsothorn, S., & Buddhakala, N. (2022). A new species of the ant genus Lepisiota Santschi, 1926 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Thailand. Far Eastern Entomologist, 456, 1-8.
