• Replacement name for Lasius mellea Provancher, 1881b. [Junior primary homonym of Camponotus melleus Say, 1836.]
• [Note: Lasius nearcticus Wheeler, 1906f junior synonym of Lasius mellea Provancher, 1881b: Emery, 1925d: 231; Creighton, 1950a: 423; Smith, 1951c: 851; Francoeur & Béique, 1966a: 144; hence Lasius nearcticus Wheeler, 1906f first available replacement name.]
• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953c: 151 (l.); Crozier, 1970a: 114 (k.)
• Combination in Lasius (Formicina): Wheeler, 1916o: 172; Wheeler, 1917k: 463.
• Combination in Lasius (Lasius): Emery, 1925d: 231.
• Combination in Lasius (Chthonolasius): Creighton, 1950a: 422.
• Combination in Lasius (Cautolasius): Wilson, 1955a: 133.
• Subspecies of Lasius flavus: Wheeler, 1906g: 13; Wheeler, 1910a: 569; Wheeler, 1916o: 172; Wheeler, 1916r: 593; Wheeler, 1917a: 527; Wheeler, 1917k: 463; Emery, 1925d: 231; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 100; Cole, 1942: 374; Buren, 1944a: 297; Creighton, 1950a: 422; Smith, 1951c: 851.
• Status as species: Wilson, 1955a: 133 (redescription); Smith, 1958c: 149; Francoeur & Béique, 1966a: 144; Smith, 1967a: 368; Francoeur, 1977b: 207; Smith, 1979: 1438; Allred, 1982: 480; DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 149; MacKay et al., 1988: 118 (in key); Wheeler et al., 1994: 308; Bolton, 1995b: 224; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 382; Coovert, 2005: 124; Ellison et al., 2012: 196.

Obsolete combinations

• Lasius flavus nearcticus

Citations

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