Plagiolepis Mayr, 1861 valid feminine
Plagiolepis Mayr, 1861: 42 Type-species: Formica pygmaea (obsolete combination of Plagiolepis pygmaea), by monotypy.
Junior synonyms
Obsolete classifications
Genus Plagiolepis catalogues

Mayr, 1863a: 442; Roger, 1863b: 11; Emery & Forel, 1879: 453 (Europe); Dalla Torre, 1893: 172, 175 (Plagiolepis, Rhopalomyrmex); Wheeler, 1922: 928, 930, 1035 (Afrotropical Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis), Plagiolepis (Anacantholepis), Malagasy); Emery, 1925d: 19, 22 (Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis), Plagiolepis (Anacantholepis)); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 212, 213 (Asia Anacantholepis, Plagiolepis); Kempf, 1972b: 205 (Neotropical); Smith, 1979: 1422 (North America); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 130 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 55 (Australia, New Caledonia); Bolton, 1995b: 334; Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 374 (Afrotropical, Malagasy checklist).

Genus Plagiolepis references

Mayr, 1865: 7 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a: 73 (diagnosis); Forel, 1878c: 376, 378 (Rhopalomyrmex, Plagiolepis diagnoses); André, 1882c: 208 (Europe & Algeria species key); Forel, 1894c: 414 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 320 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Arnold, 1920a: 578 (diagnosis, subgenera key); Arnold, 1922: 579 (South Africa species key); Wheeler, 1922: 211, 696 (diagnosis, subgenera key); Emery, 1925d: 19, 22 (Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis), Plagiolepis (Anacantholepis) diagnoses); Stitz, 1939: 231 (Germany species key); Kratochvíl, 1941b: 98 (Central Europe species key); Novák & Sadil, 1941: 98 (Central Europe species key); Bernard, 1967a: 272 (diagnosis, Western Europe species key); Kutter, 1977c: 185 (Switzerland species key); Collingwood, 1978: 89 (Iberian Peninsula species key); Gösswald, 1985: 264 (Germany species key); Collingwood, 1985: 297 (Saudi Arabia species key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 280 (Balkans species key); Radchenko, 1989c: 153 (European former U.S.S.R. species key); Dlussky et al., 1990: 161 (Turkmenistan species key); Morisita et al., 1991: 16 (Japan species key); Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 201 (Bulgaria species key); Arakelian, 1994: 78 (Armenia species key); Bolton, 1994: 51 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1052 (census); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 130 (China species key); Radchenko, 1996d: 178 (Central & Southern Palaearctic species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 362 (Saudi Arabia species key); Seifert, 1996b: 178 (Central Europe species key); Dlussky, 1997a: 53 (in Baltic amber genera key); Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 22 (Portugal species key); Shattuck, 1999: 106 (Australia synopsis); Seifert, 2007: 158 (North and Central Europe species key); Terayama, 2009: 213 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009: 106 (south-western Australia species key); Dlussky, 2010a: 72 (Eocene European amber species key); Sharaf et al., 2011: 208 (Arabian Peninsula species key); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 373 (diagnosis); Radchenko, 2016: 341 (Ukraine species key); Cantone, 2017: 169 (brief male diagnosis); Salata et al., 2018: 819 (north-eastern Mediterranean species key); Seifert, 2020b (Plagiolepis schmitzii group revision); Heterick, 2021: 129 (Western Australia species key); Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 245 (diagnosis, key to Greece species); Phosrithong et al., 2024: 11 (Southeast Asian worker-based species key).

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Extant: 67 valid species, 13 valid subspecies

Fossil: 10 valid species

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