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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Ants (Formicoidea) » Ants (Formicidae) » Formicinae » Lasiini » Citronella Ants (Lasius) » Subgenus Lasius (Lasius Subgenus Lasius) » formerly Lasius alienus (Lasius americanus)
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Spring Ants - Lasius americanus - female
Copyright © 2010 Bruce Marlin

Spring Ants - Lasius americanus - Female
DuPage County, Illinois, USA
April 12, 2010
Size: 3-4mm
Found under tree bark on rotting log on forest floor.

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Spring Ants - Lasius americanus - female Spring Ants - Lasius americanus - female Spring Ants - Lasius americanus - female
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Contributed by Bruce Marlin on 12 April, 2010 - 11:42am
Last updated 16 April, 2010 - 7:49am

Moved
Moved from Ants.
… Bruce Marlin, 16 April, 2010 - 7:49am login or register to post comments

Lasius sp. - workers
I'm leaning for L. alienus.
… Richard Vernier, 14 April, 2010 - 5:15am login or register to post comments

 
And I lean that way, too.
I suspect this one will be revealed to be genetically distinct from the European ant of the same name, thus becoming "Lasius americanus", but that must await a formal revision. It is already quite distinct ecologically.
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