See Also:
Lasius niger_cf,
Lasius niger_nr1,
Lasius niger pinetorum
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2018)
Distribution:
(According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
Indomalaya Region: Bhutan,
India,
Maldives,
Nepal,
PakistanNearctic Region: Canada,
United StatesNeotropical Region: Falkland Islands,
MexicoPalearctic Region: Afghanistan,
Albania,
Andorra,
Armenia,
Austria,
Belarus,
Belgium,
Bulgaria,
Channel Islands,
China,
Croatia,
Czech Republic,
Denmark,
Estonia,
Faroe Islands,
Finland,
France,
Georgia,
Germany,
Gibraltar,
Greece,
Hungary,
Ireland,
Italy,
Japan,
Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Latvia,
Liechtenstein,
Lithuania,
Luxembourg,
Macedonia,
Moldova,
Monaco,
Mongolia,
Montenegro,
Netherlands,
North Korea,
Norway,
Poland,
Portugal,
Romania,
Russia,
Serbia,
Slovakia,
Slovenia,
South Korea,
Spain,
Sweden,
Switzerland,
Turkey,
United Kingdom
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
Lasius niger |
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Forel, A., 1886, Études myrmécologiques en 1886., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 30, pp. 131-215: 76, (download) |
76 |
3923
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Lasius niger |
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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
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Lasius niger |
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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
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Lasius niger |
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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
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Lasius niger |
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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
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Lasius niger |
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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
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Lasius niger |
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Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: -1, (download) |
-1 |
21008
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Lasius niger |
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Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8, pp. 1-174: 99-100, (download) |
99-100 |
6175
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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, 0 times on the ground, 2 times nest under rocks in exposed area, 2 times nest under rock at bottom of gully, 1 times under stone, 1 times crater nest in soil, 1 times on rock, 1 times nest under stone, 1 times nest under bark of dead aspen, ...
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, 766 meters average
Type specimens: type of Lasius niger: casent0903221
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