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Species Lasius americanus - formerly Lasius alienus

Black insect with light brown legs - Lasius americanus

plush brown ant - Lasius americanus - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)

Superfamily Formicoidea (Ants)

Family Formicidae (Ants)

Subfamily Formicinae

Tribe Lasiini

Genus Lasius (Citronella Ants)

No Taxon (Subgenus Lasius)

Species americanus (formerly Lasius alienus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lasius alienus (Foerster) has long been applied to the Nearctic population. Schar, et al 2018 (see print references) at long last elevated this species out of the Eurasian taxon L. alienus.)

see genus page for notes of the taxonomic status

Explanation of Names

Author: Carlo Emery, 1893

Identification

Workers are dusky brown with with somewhat lighter appendages. Antennal scapes typically lack any erect setae, and propodeum and lower edges of hind femora have only a few erect setae, near the base, and reduced appressed pubescence.

Habitat

Forests and woodlands, mostly. Often nests in or under rotten wood.

Remarks

A small and common species spread across temperate forests of North America.

Print References

Schar, et al. (2018) Do Holarctic ant species exist? Trans-Beringian dispersal and homoplasy in the Formicidae. Journal of Biogeography. 2018;1–12.

Internet References

Myrmecos

Contributed by tom murray on 13 March, 2006 - 7:27am
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Bbarnd, ceiseman, James C. Trager, v belov, Harsi S. Parker, Blocky
Last updated 7 December, 2019 - 5:30pm

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