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Lasius
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) and Carpenter (1992); to Formicinae by Zhang (1989) and Dlussky et al. (2015); and to Lasiini by Bolton (2003), Bolton (2012), Ward et al. (2016) and Boudinot et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Formicini by Wheeler (1915); to Formicidae by Scudder (1878) and Carpenter (1992); to Formicinae by Zhang (1989) and Dlussky et al. (2015); and to Lasiini by Bolton (2003), Bolton (2012), Ward et al. (2016) and Boudinot et al. (2022).
Species
L. anthracinus, L. chambonensis, L. crispus, L. epicentrus, L. globularis (syn. Formica capito), L. glom, L. inflatus, L. longaevus, L. longipennis, L. mordicus, L. nemorivagus, L. oblongus, L. occultatus (syn. Formica pumila, Formica minutula, Formica obliterata), L. ophthalmicus (syn. Formica macrocephala radobojana), L. peritulus, L. punctulatus, L. schiefferdeckeri (syn. L. edentatus), L. tertiarius, L. truncatus, L. validus, L. vetulus, L. vulgaris
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1805 | Lasius Fabricius p. 415 |
| 1878 | Lasius Scudder p. 747 |
| 1915 | Lasius Wheeler |
| 1989 | Lasius Zhang p. 291 |
| 1989 | Tylolasius Zhang p. 437 figs. Pl. 74 fig 5 |
| 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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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 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 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
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Age range: base of the Lutetian to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 47.80000 to 0.12900 Ma
Collections (61 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Lutetian | USA (Montana) | L. glom (117614) | |
| Priabonian | Russian Federation (Primorskiy) | L. sp. A, L. sp. B (172678 172679) L. sp. B (123794) | |
| Priabonian | Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) | L. schiefferdeckeri (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 | Germany (Halle) | L. schiefferdeckeri (129227 129228) | |
| Priabonian | Poland | L. schiefferdeckeri (109625 120813) L. schiefferdeckeri, L. punctulatus, L. edentatus (120811) | |
| Priabonian | Lithuania | L. schiefferdeckeri (113470) | |
| Priabonian | Ukraine | L. schiefferdeckeri (113621 122997 122998 153882 234940) | |
| Priabonian | Belarus | L. schiefferdeckeri (224403) | |
| Priabonian | Russian Federation | L. schiefferdeckeri (123930) | |
| Chadronian | USA (Colorado) | L. peritulus (106384 123119 124002 124624 127617 132362) Tetramorium peritulum (124680) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene | USA (Colorado) | L. peritulus (122093) | |
| Chattian | France (Bouches-Du-Rhone) | Formica capito (122876) Formica minutula (122877) Formica minutula, L. epicentrus (122501) | |
| Chattian | Russian Federation | L. vulgaris (125971) | |
| Aquitanian | Germany | L. sp. (123872) | |
| Burdigalian | China (Shandong) | L. vetulus, L. validus, L. truncatus (128550) Tylolasius inflatus, L. mordicus (128551) | |
| Langhian | USA (Idaho) | L. sp. (97616) | |
| Middle Miocene | Russian Federation | L. vetulus (125990) | |
| Badenian | Austria (Steiermark) | Formica occultata (115306) | |
| Sarmatian | 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 | Ukraine | L. tertiarius (138935) | |
| Tortonian | France | L. crispus (138766) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Poland | L. oblongus (138936) | |
| Turolian | France (Ardèche) | L. crispus, L. chambonensis (172761) | |
| Gelasian | France | L. sp., L. chambonensis (113996) | |
| Calabrian | Portugal | L. sp. (201818) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Japan | L. sp. (211426) |