Lasius plumopilosus

Lasius plumopilosus Buren, 1941 valid

Lasius (Acanthomyops) plumopilosus Buren, 1941b: 231, fig. 1 (w.q.m.) U.S.A. (Iowa). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Iowa, Backbone State Park, 13.ix.1940 (W.F. Buren). Primary type depository: USNM. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 6 paratype workers, 7 paratype queens, 1 paratype male. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: ISUI, LACM, MCZC, USNM.

Combination in Acanthomyops: Creighton, 1950a: 433; Wing, 1968a: 132.
Combination in Lasius: Ward, 2005: 13.
Status as species: Buren, 1944a: 299; Creighton, 1950a: 433; Buren, 1950: 188 (in key); Smith, 1951c: 854; Smith, 1958c: 151; Wing, 1968a: 132 (redescription); Smith, 1979: 1442; Wheeler et al., 1994: 305; Bolton, 1995b: 53; Coovert, 2005: 132; Ellison et al., 2012: 199.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Buren, W. F. 1941b. Lasius (Acanthomyops) plumopilosus, a new ant with plumose hairs from Iowa. Iowa State College Journal of Science 15:231-235. PDF
Buren, W. F. 1944a. A list of Iowa ants. Iowa State College Journal of Science 18:277-312. PDF
Buren, W. F. 1950. A new Lasius (Acanthomyops) with a key to North American females. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 52:184-190. PDF
Coovert, G. A. 2005. The ants of Ohio. Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey (New Series) 15 (2):1-196. PDF
Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
Ellison, A. M.; Gotelli, N. J.; Farnsworth, E. J.; Alpert, G. D. 2012. A field guide to the ants of New England. New Haven: Yale University Press, xv + 398 pp.
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 936:1-68. PDF
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J.; Kannowski, P. B. 1994. Checklist of ants of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Great Lakes Entomologist 26:297-310. PDF
Wing, M. W. 1968a. Taxonomic revision of the Nearctic genus Acanthomyops (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station 405:1-173. PDF

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