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Species: Lasius (Cautolasius) flavus

Name Status: Valid Name

Taxonomic Hierarchy:

Subfamily: Formicinae Genus: Lasius

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Formica flava Fabricius, 1782: 491 (w.) EUROPE. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Latreille, 1798 PDF: 42 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953c PDF: 152 (l.); Hauschteck, 1962 PDF: 219 (k.); Imai, 1966b PDF: 120 (k.).

Combination in Lasius: Mayr, 1861 PDF: 50; Emery, 1925d PDF: 231; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929b PDF: 36; in Donisthorpea: Donisthorpe, 1915f: 216; in Formicina: Emery, 1916a PDF: 241; in Acanthomyops: Forel, 1916 PDF: 460; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927e PDF: 187; in Lasius (Chthonolasius): Ruzsky, 1914a PDF: 59; in Chthonolasius: Ruzsky, 1925a PDF: 288; Ruzsky, 1936 PDF: 90; in Lasius (Cautolasius): Wilson, 1955a PDF: 112.

Senior synonym of Lasius ruficornis: Roger, 1862c PDF: 285; of Lasius ibericus and material of the unavailable name Lasius sancho referred here: Wilson, 1955a PDF: 112; Seifert, 1990 PDF: 12; of Lasius apennina, Lasius brevicornis, Lasius fuscoides, Lasius helvus, Lasius microps (and its junior synonym Lasius claripennis), Lasius morbosa, Lasius odoratus, Lasius olivacea: Wilson, 1955a PDF: 112.

See also: Bernard, 1967a PDF: 359; Kutter, 1977c: 229; Collingwood, 1979 PDF: 96; Yamauchi, 1979 PDF: 160; Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 222; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 241.

Distribution:

Throughout SLO

Biology:

Mostly grasslands (dry or wet), subterranean

Notes:

One wonders if the old name bicornis might be valid for this American population?

Taxon Page Author History

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Ward, P. S., 2005:

Specimen Data Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 1 times found in Residential garden; pine, birch, annual grass, 3 times found in road edge in deciduous forest, 1 times found in Bare slope surrounded by conifer forest, 1 times found in sparse ponderosa pine forest, 1 times found in grassy bald, 1 times found in whitebark pine forest, 1 times found in peak bald at treeline, 1 times found in pine-fir forest, 1 times found in alpine vegetation, 1 times found in pine-hemlock forest, ...

Collected most commonly using these methods or in the following microhabitats: 12 times search, 1 times by hand

Elevations: collected from 5 - 2655 meters, 1257 meters average