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Species: Lasius (Lasius) niger   (Linnaeus, 1758) 


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Lasius niger_cf, Lasius niger_nr1, Lasius niger pinetorum

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

1 subspecies

Formica nigra Linnaeus, 1758 PDF: 580 (w.) EUROPE. Palearctic. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Latreille, 1798: 43 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953c PDF: 148 (l.); Hauschteck, 1962 PDF: 219 (k.); Imai & Kubota, 1972 PDF: 196 (k.).
Combination in Lasius: Fabricius, 1804 PDF: 415.
Combination in Donisthorpea: Donisthorpe, 1915f: 200.
Combination in Formicina (Donisthorpea): Emery, 1916a PDF: 240.
Combination in Acanthomyops: Forel, 1916 PDF: 460; .
Senior synonym of Lasius nigerrima: Emery, 1892c PDF: 162.
Senior synonym of Lasius pallescens: Mayr, 1861 PDF: 49.
Combination in Lasius: Menozzi, 1921 PDF: 32; Müller, 1923b: 124; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929a PDF: 26; Wilson, 1955a PDF: 59.
Combination in Acanthomyops (Donisthorpea): Donisthorpe, 1927a PDF: 8; Donisthorpe, 1950e PDF:1063;.
Senior synonym of Lasius alienoniger, Lasius emeryi, Lasius nitidus, Lasius minimus, Lasius transylvanica and material of the unavailable name Lasius pilicornis referred here: Wilson, 1955a PDF: 59.
Status as species: Imai, 1966b PDF: 119; Tarbinsky, 1976 PDF: 134; Kutter, 1977c: 227; Yamauchi, 1979 PDF: 152; Collingwood, 1982 PDF: 287; Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 219; Seifert, 1992b: 27.
Current subspecies: nominal plus Lasius niger pinetorum.
Senior synonym of Lasius alienoniger: Kutter, 1977c: 14.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)
Indomalaya Region: Asia, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan
Nearctic Region: Alberta, Arizona, Baja California, California, Canada, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North America, Nova Scotia, Oregon, United States, Utah, Washington
Neotropical Region: Americas, Falkland Islands
Palearctic Region: Afghanistan, Akershus, Albania, Altay, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Basel-Landschaft, Basque Country, Belarus, Belgium, Brandenburg, Brussels Capital, Bulgaria, Channel Islands, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dobrich, East Flanders, Eastern Asia, Eastern Europe, Estonia, Europe, Faroe Islands, Finland, Flemish Brabant, France, Geneva, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hainaut, Hovedstaden, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Liguria, Limburg, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madrid, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Moskva, Murcia, Namur, Netherlands, North Korea, Northern Europe, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rogaland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sjælland, Skåne, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sofia, South Korea, Southern Europe, Southwest Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Toscana, Turkey, United Kingdom, Västra Götaland, Walloon Brabant, West Flanders, Western Europe, Wielkopolskie, Zurich

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Lasius niger   Forel, A., 1886, Études myrmécologiques en 1886., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 30, pp. 131-215: 76, (download) 76 3923
Lasius niger   Forel, A., 1894, Les formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part IV. Adjonction aux genres Camponotus, Mayr., et Polyrhachis, Shuck., Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 8, pp. 396-420: 404, (download) 404 3951
Lasius niger   Forel, A., 1904, Note sur les fourmis du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences à St. Pétersbourg., Yezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk 8, pp. 368-388: 19, (download) 19 3994
Lasius niger   Smith, F., 1851, List of the specimens of British animals in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. - Hymenoptera Aculeata., London: British Museum: 2-3, (download) 2-3 8200
Lasius niger   Emery, C., 1893, Voyage de M. Ch. Alluaud aux iles Canaries. Formicides., Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 62, pp. 81-88: 85, (download) 85 3764
Lasius niger   Forel, A., 1890, Fourmis de Tunisie et de l'Algérie orientale., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, Comptes-rendus des Seances 34, pp. 61-76: 67, (download) 67 3926
Lasius niger   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: -1, (download) -1 21008
Lasius niger   Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8, pp. 1-174: 99-100, (download) 99-100 6175

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 0 times found in Unknown, 0 times found in anthropogenic, 0 times found in dry grassland, 0 times found in heathlands, 0 times found in Wet grassland, 0 times found in Forest, 0 times found in dunes & inland dunes, 0 times found in shrubs, 0 times found in Rocks (rocky-calcareous grasslands), 9 times found in pine/fir woodland, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 3 times under rock, 3 times nest under rock, 1 times under rocks, 2 times nest under rocks in exposed area, 2 times nest under rock at bottom of gully, 1 times crater nest in soil, 1 times on rock, 1 times nest under stone, 1 times nest under bark of dead aspen, 1 times nbp, 1 times in leaf litter, ...

Collected most commonly using these methods: 0 times Manual catch, 0 times Pitfall trap, 0 times Color trap, 20 times hand collecting, 1 times Search, 0 times White pitfall, 11 times Hand, 0 times under rock, 0 times White color trap, 0 times insect net, 0 times Malaise trap, ...

Elevations: collected from 3 - 2685 meters, 853 meters average

Type specimens: type of Lasius niger: casent0903221



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