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Lasius

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy

Lasius was named by Fabricius (1805). It is extant. It is the type genus of Lasiini.

It was assigned to Formicini by Wheeler (1915); to Formicidae by Scudder (1878), Carpenter (1992); to Formicinae by Zhang (1989), Dlussky et al. (2015); and to Lasiini by Bolton (2003), Bolton (2012), Ward et al. (2016), Boudinot et al. (2022).

Entered

by E. Leckey (authorized by D. Smith) on 2006-03-08

Synonyms

Tylolasius was named by Zhang (1989). It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Lasius by Hong et al. (2001), Bolton (2012).

It was assigned to Formicinae by Zhang (1989), Bolton (2003).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1805	Lasius Fabricius p. 415
1878	Lasius Scudder p. 747
1915	Lasius Wheeler
1989	Lasius Zhang p. 291
1989	Tylolasius Zhang p. 437
1992	Lasius Carpenter
2003	Lasius Bolton p. 22
2003	Tylolasius Bolton p. 28
2012	Lasius Bolton
2015	Lasius Dlussky et al. p. 138
2016	Lasius Ward et al. p. 347
2022	Lasius Boudinot et al. p. 134

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Hymenopterida
order	Hymenoptera
—	Unicalcarida
suborder	Apocrita	Gerstaecker 1867
—	Aculeata	()
superfamily	Formicoidea
family	Formicidae	()
—	Antennoclypeata
—	Euformicia
—	Doryloformicia
—	Formicia
—	Formicomyrmida
—	Formicomorpha
subfamily	Formicinae
tribe	Lasiini
genus	Lasius	Fabricius 1805

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Lasius Fabricius 1805

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†Lasius anthracinus Heer 1867

†Lasius chambonensis Théobald 1935

†Lasius crispus Théobald 1935

†Lasius epicentrus Theobald 1937

†Lasius globularis Heer 1849

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Invalid names: Formica capito Heer 1856 [synonym]

†Lasius glom LaPolla and Greenwalt 2015

†Lasius inflatus Zhang 1989

†Lasius longaevus Heer 1849

†Lasius longipennis Heer 1849

†Lasius mordicus Zhang 1989

†Lasius nemorivagus Wheeler 1915

†Lasius oblongus Assmann 1870

†Lasius occultatus Heer 1849

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Invalid names: Formica minutula Heer 1849 [synonym], Formica obliterata Heer 1849 [synonym], Formica pumila Heer 1849 [synonym]

†Lasius ophthalmicus Heer 1849

†Lasius peritulus Cockerell 1927

†Lasius punctulatus Mayr 1868

†Lasius schiefferdeckeri Mayr 1868

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Invalid names: Lasius edentatus Mayr 1868 [synonym]

†Lasius tertiarius Zalessky 1949

†Lasius truncatus Zhang 1989

†Lasius validus Zhang 1989

†Lasius vetulus Dlussky 1981

†Lasius vulgaris Perfilieva 2022

Invalid names: Formica macrocephala radobojana Heer 1849 [synonym], Tylolasius Zhang 1989 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Lutetian to the top of the Chibanian or 48.07000 to 0.12900 Ma

Collections (62 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	USA (Montana)	L. glom (117614)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.71 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	L. peritulus (122093)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	L. schiefferdeckeri (110735 123458 123757 124205 138654 138657 138658 138661 138663) L. schiefferdeckeri, L. punctulatus (124073) L. schiefferdeckeri, L. punctulatus, L. nemorivagus (123927) L. sp. (124318 125139)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Belarus	L. schiefferdeckeri (224403)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Primorskiy)	L. sp. A, L. sp. B (172678 172679) L. sp. B (123794)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Germany (Halle)	L. schiefferdeckeri (129227 129228)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation	L. schiefferdeckeri (123930)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Lithuania	L. schiefferdeckeri (113470)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Ukraine	L. schiefferdeckeri (113621 122997 122998 153882 234940)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Poland	L. schiefferdeckeri (109625 120813) L. schiefferdeckeri, L. punctulatus, L. edentatus (120811)
Chadronian	37.0 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	L. peritulus (106384 123119 124002 124624 127617 132362) Tetramorium peritulum (124680)
Rupelian	33.9 - 27.3	USA (Montana)	L. sp. (277318)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	France (Bouches-Du-Rhone)	Formica capito (122876) Formica minutula (122877) Formica minutula, L. epicentrus (122501)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	Russian Federation	L. vulgaris (125971)
Aquitanian	23.04 - 20.45	Germany	L. sp. (123872)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	China (Shandong)	L. vetulus, L. validus, L. truncatus (128550) Tylolasius inflatus, L. mordicus (128551)
Langhian	15.98 - 13.82	USA (Idaho)	L. sp. (97616)
Middle Miocene	15.98 - 11.63	Russian Federation	L. vetulus (125990)
Sarmatian	12.8 - 11.63	Croatia	Formica occultata (122874) Formica ophthalmica, Formica globularis, Formica longaeva, Formica occultata, Formica longipennis, Formica minutula, Formica pumila, Formica obliterata, Formica capito, Poneropsis anthracina, Formica macrocephala (117246) L. globularis, L. longaevus, L. occultatus, L. longipennis, L. ophthalmicus, L. anthracinus (113698 117247) L. occultatus (156759) L. ophthalmicus (113693) L. ophthalmicus, Solenopsis longaevus (156758)
Sarmatian	12.8 - 11.63	Ukraine	L. tertiarius (138935)
Tortonian	11.63 - 7.246	France	L. crispus (138766)
Late/Upper Miocene	11.63 - 5.333	Poland	L. oblongus (138936)
Turolian	8.725 - 5.09	France (Ardèche)	L. crispus, L. chambonensis (172761)
Gelasian	2.58 - 1.8	France	L. sp., L. chambonensis (113996)
Calabrian	1.8 - 0.774	Portugal	L. sp. (201818)
Chibanian	0.774 - 0.129	Japan	L. sp. (211426)