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*Lasiacantha histricula (Puton) 



Monanthia {Lasiacantha) histricula Puton 1878, p. lxvii [Spain]; 1886b, 



p. 33. 

 Monanthia histricula: Puton 1880, p. 243 [France]. 



Lasiacantha histricula: Lethierry and Severin 1896, p. 19. — Horvath 

 1906a, p. 61.— Gonzalez 1948, p. 50— Gomez-Menor 1955b, p. 249. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Madrid, Spain; Vienna Mus. 

 Distribution: Spain; France. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



*Lasiacantha horvathi Drake 



Lasiacantha horvathi Drake 1951, p. 176 [Tanganyika]. 

 Type: Holotype 9; Meschi, Africa Orientalis; Hungarian Mus. 

 Distribution: Tanganyika; Sudan; South Africa (Cape Province). 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



Lasiacantha insularis Schouteden 



Lasiacantha insularis Schouteden 1957a, p. 84 [Malagasy]. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Tananarive, Madagascar; Paris Mus. 

 Distribution: Malagasy Republic. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



*Lasiacantha kin Schouteden 



Lasiacantha kin Schouteden 1955a, p. 28 [Congo]. 



Type: Sex unknown; Kinchassa, Bas-Congo, Belgian Congo; Cent. Afr. 

 Mus. 



Distribution: Congo. 



Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



Lasiacantha leai (Hacker) 



Myrmecotingis leai Hacker 1928, p. 182, pi. 23. fig. 15 [Western Aus- 

 tralia]. 

 Lasiacantha leai: Hacker 1929, p. 334. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Swan River, Western Australia, Australia; Queens- 

 land Mus. 

 Distribution : Australia (Western Australia) . 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



Note: Inquiline, "originally carded with specimens of the Dolichoderine 

 ant Iridomyrmex conifer Forel" [Hacker 1928]. 



*Lasiacantha merita Drake 



Lasiacantha merita Drake 1958c, p. 322 [Malagasy]. 



Type: Sex unknown; Tulear, Anakao du Bas, Madagascar; Madagascar 

 Sci. Inst. 



Distribution: Malagasy Republic. 



Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



