Lepisiota carbonaria

Lepisiota carbonaria (Emery, 1892) (Figure 11) Acantholepis carbonaria Emery, 1892, p. 119 (w.q.) Somalia. Afrotropic. Diagnosis Worker. Colour uniform black, black-brown or reddish; propodeal spines acute; mesosoma with a single pair of setae on pronotum; petiole spines distinctly long, about as long as half their intervening width; head and mesosoma finely and distinctly punctate, general appearance slightly shining. Material examined. Five sites: 4; 7; 8; 9; 15. Geographic range. Originally described from Somalia, this species has been reported from the KSA, Oman and Yemen (Collingwood 1985; Collingwood and Agosti 1996). Ecology and biology. Unknown.