Lasius Fabricius, 1804 valid masculine
Lasius Fabricius, 1804: 415 Type-species: Formica nigra (obsolete combination of Lasius niger), by subsequent designation of Bingham, 1903: 338.
Junior synonyms
Obsolete classifications
Genus Lasius catalogues

Roger, 1863b: 11; Mayr, 1863a: 394, 425; Emery & Forel, 1879: 452 (Europe); Cresson, 1887: 257 (U.S.A.); Dalla Torre, 1893: 181; Emery, 1925d: 226, 231, 235, 236 (Lasius (Lasius), Lasius (Chthonolasius), Lasius (Dendrolasius), Lasius (Acanthomyops)); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 201 (Asia); Smith, 1951c: 850 (North America); Smith, 1979: 1435, 1440 (North America Lasius, Acanthomyops); Bolton, 1995b: 53, 221 (Acanthomyops, Lasius).

Genus Lasius references

Mayr, 1861: 49 (diagnosis, Europe species key); Mayr, 1865: 8 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a: 74 (diagnosis); André, 1874b: 179 (Europe species key); Forel, 1874: 46 (Switzerland species key); Forel, 1878c: 374 (diagnosis); Lubbock, 1881: 141 (w.q. mesosomal skeletomusculature); André, 1882c: 191 (Europe & Algeria species key); Provancher, 1887: 236 (Canada species key); Nasonov, 1889: 64 (Russia species key); Emery, 1893k: 637 (North America species key); Bingham, 1903: 339 (India species key); Ruzsky, 1905b: 264 (Russian Empire species key); Wasmann, 1906: 10 (Luxemburg species key); Bondroit, 1910: 484 (Belgium species key); Wheeler, 1910h: 237 (North America Lasius umbratus forms, key); Stitz, 1914: 82 (Central Europe species key); Donisthorpe, 1915f: 188 (Britain species key); Emery, 1916a: 243 (Italy species key); Wheeler, 1916r: 591 (U.S.A., Connecticut species key); Bondroit, 1918: 19 (France & Belgium species key); Wheeler, 1922: 698 (subgenera key); Emery, 1925d: 226 (diagnosis, subgenera key); Emery, 1925d: 231 (Lasius (Chthonolasius)) diagnosis); Emery, 1925d: 235 (Lasius (Dendrolasius)) diagnosis); Emery, 1925d: 236 (Lasius (Acanthomyops) diagnosis); Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927e: 186 (Turkestan species key); Karavaiev, 1927d: 277 (Ukraine species key); Donisthorpe, 1927c: 206 (Britain species key); Arnol'di, 1933a: 602 (Russia species key); Karavaiev, 1936: 193 (Ukraine species key); Stärcke, 1937: 57 (Europe Lasius umbratus group, key); Menozzi, 1939a: 313 (Himalaya & Tibet species key); Stitz, 1939: 267 (Germany species key); Kratochvíl, 1941b: 100 (Central Europe species key); Novák & Sadil, 1941: 100 (Central Europe species key); Cole, 1942: 373 (U.S.A., Utah species key); Holgersen, 1943c: 174 (Norway species key); Holgersen, 1944a: 199 (Norway species key); Buren, 1944a: 296 (U.S.A., Iowa species key); Stärcke, 1944b: 157 (Europe Lasius niger group, key); Van Boven, 1947b: 184 (Belgium species key); Creighton, 1950a: 418 (Lasius Nearctic species key), 428 (Acanthomyops Nearctic species key); Buren, 1950: 188 (Acanthomyops queens, key); Wilson, 1955a: 11, 13, 14 (subgenera review, subgenera Lasius, Chthonolasius, Dendrolasius diagnoses); Wilson, 1955a: 26 (Lasius all species revision; Nearctic species key), 28 (Palaearctic species key); Boven, 1959: 11 (Netherlands species key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1963: 177 (U.S.A., North Dakota Lasius species key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1963: 195 (U.S.A., North Dakota Acanthomyops species key); Gregg, 1963: 453 (U.S.A., Colorado species key); Collingwood, 1963b: 155 (Europe Lasius umbratus group species key); Collingwood, 1964b: 107 (Britain species key); Bernard, 1967a: 349 (diagnosis, Western Europe species key); Wing, 1968a: 53 (Acanthomyops diagnosis, all species revision, key); Bourne, 1973: 19 (Britain species key); Boven, 1970b: 28 (Netherlands species key); Bolton & Collingwood, 1975: 7 (Britain species key); Tarbinsky, 1976: 133 (Kyrgyzstan species key); Van Boven, 1977: 135 (Belgium species key); Kutter, 1977c: 208 (Switzerland species key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 555 (former European U.S.S.R. species key); Collingwood, 1978: 89 (Iberian Peninsula species key); Collingwood, 1979: 92 (Fennoscandia & Denmark species key); Yamauchi, 1979: 147 (Japan species keys); Allred, 1982: 444 (U.S.A., Utah Acanthomyops species key); Allred, 1982: 450 (U.S.A., Utah Lasius species key); Collingwood, 1982: 283 (Himalayan species key); Gösswald, 1985: 268 (Germany species key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 64 (U.S.A., Nevada Lasius species key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 68 (U.S.A., Nevada Acanthomyops species key); Nilsson & Douwes, 1987: 70 (Norway species key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 281 (Balkans species key); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77 (synoptic classification); Seifert, 1988a: 143 (Europe Lasius (Chthonolasius) species key); Kupyanskaya, 1989: 781 (East Palaearctic Lasius (Dendrolasius) species key); Dlussky et al., 1990: 158 (Turkmenistan species key); Seifert, 1990: 1 (supplement to European Lasius (Chthonolasius)); Agosti & Bolton, 1990b: 149 (characters); Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 211 (Far Eastern Russia species key); Morisita et al., 1991: 24 (Japan species key); Agosti, 1991: 295 (Lasius genus group diagnosis); Seifert, 1992b: 48 (Palaearctic Lasius (Lasius) species key); Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 232 (Bulgaria species key); Arakelian, 1994: 111 (Armenia species key); Bolton, 1994: 50 (synoptic classification); Radchenko, 1994b: 114 (South Siberia species key); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Douwes, 1995: 92 (Sweden species key); Kupyanskaya, 1995: 361 (Far Eastern Russia species key); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 153 (China species key); Seifert, 1996b: 179 (Central Europe species key); Skinner & Allen, 1996: 42 (Britain species key); Dlussky, 1997a: 55 (in Baltic amber genera key); Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 22 (Portugal species key); Zhou, 2001a: 187 (China, Guangxi species key); Blacker & Collingwood, 2002: 44 (British species key); Czechowski et al., 2002: 154 (Poland species key); Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 237 (U.S.A., New Mexico Acanthomyops species key); Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 331 (U.S.A., New Mexico Lasius species key); Radchenko, 2005a: 93 (East Palaearctic Lasius (Dendrolasius) species key); Radchenko, 2005b: 190 (North Korea species key); Seifert, 2007: 159 (North and Central Europe species key); Terayama, 2009: 207 (Taiwan species key); Dlussky, 2011: 218 (European Late Eocene species key); Czechowski et al., 2012: 382 (Poland species key); Bharti & Gul, 2013a: 56 (Indian Himalayas species key); Dlussky & Putyatina, 2014: 261 (diagnosis, compression fossils); Dlussky et al., 2015: 138 (diagnosis for fossil imprints); Seifert & Galkowski, 2016: 44 (Lasius alienus group of Europe and Asia Minor species key); Radchenko, 2016: 355 (Ukraine species key); Cantone, 2017: 159 (brief male diagnosis); Salata & Borowiec, 2018b: 157 (Crete species key); Kubota et al., 2019: 1 (tentorium morphology); Seifert, 2020a: 22 (Lasius (Lasius) species complexes and complex diagnoses), 23 (key to Lasius (Lasius) species (workers)); Radchenko & Perkovsky, 2021: 1 (Bitterfeld amber syninclusion); Boudinot et al., 2022: 120 (phylogeny, species group classification), 134, 135 (genus group, genus definitions); Boudinot et al., 2022: Schär et al., 2022: 4 (Lasius niger clade phylogeny excluding Lasius fuliginosus-group); Perfilieva, 2022: 420 (wing diagnosis); Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 183 (diagnosis, key to Greece Lasius subgenera), 184 (key to Greece Lasius (Lasius) species), 205 (Lasius turcicus complex distribution, description, biology), 207 (key to Greece Lasius (Austrolasius) species), 209 (key to Greece Lasius (Cautolasius) species), 212 (key to Greece Lasius (Chthonolasius) species); Takahashi & Aiba, 2023: 574 (fossil male); Kennett et al., 2024: 7 (Lasius emarginatus colony structure, natural history in New York City).

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Extant: 126 valid species, 1 valid subspecies

Fossil: 21 valid species

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