Nearctic: California > Formicinae > Lasius > Lasius alienus

Species: Lasius alienus

Taxonomic Hierarchy:

Subfamily: Formicinae Genus: Lasius

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2010)

alienus. Formica aliena Foerster, 1850a: 36 (w.m.) GERMANY. Foerster, 1850a: 71 (q.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1953c: 147 (l.); Hauschteck, 1962: 219 (k.). Combination in Lasius: Mayr, 1861: 49; in Donisthorpea: Donisthorpe, 1915d: 212; in Formicina: Emery, 1916b: 240; in Acanthomyops: Ruzsky, 1925b: 44; in Lasius: Menozzi, 1921: 32; M�ller, 1923: 125; Emery, 1925b: 230; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929a: 27. Subspecies of niger: Forel, 1874: 46; Mayr, 1886d: 429; Forel, 1892i: 307; Forel, 1904b: 386; Wheeler, W.M. 1906c: 322; Forel, 1913d: 438; Forel, 1915d: 53; Emery, 1916b: 240; Santschi, 1925g: 349; Karavaiev, 1927c: 280; Menozzi, 1936d: 305; Menozzi, 1939a: 312. Status as species: Saunders, E. 1880: 209; Andr�, 1882b: 192; Nasonov, 1889: 22; Emery, 1897f: 238; Ruzsky, 1902d: 16; Emery, 1908d: 24; Bondroit, 1911: 11; Donisthorpe, 1915d: 212; Bondroit, 1918: 25; Stitz, 1939: 279; Novak & Sadil, 1941: 101; R�szler, 1942a: 53; St�rcke, 1944a: 153; Wilson, 1955a: 77; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 200; Kutter, 1977c: 227; Collingwood, 1979: 97; Yamauchi, 1979: 156; Collingwood, 1982: 285; Kupyanskaya, 1990: 218; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 237; Seifert, 1992b: 13. Senior synonym of americanus, pannonica and material of the unavailable names alienoamericanus, flavidus, turkmenus referred here: Wilson, 1955a: 77.