Lasius mixtus

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Lasius mixtus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Lasiini
Genus: Lasius
Section: flavus clade
Species group: umbratus
Species: L. mixtus
Binomial name
Lasius mixtus
(Nylander, 1846)

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Specimen labels

This species nests deep in the ground often among shrub roots and under deep boulders, but occasionally also constructs mound nests of fine loose soil. Alatae fly in August and September and fertilised queens are thought to found fresh colonies through adoption by Lasius flavus, Lasius niger (unconfirmed) and Lasius platythorax, but actual recorded instances are very few or dubious. Dealate queens are often found wandering singly above ground in spring (Collingwood, 1979).

At a Glance • Temporary parasite  

Identification

Worker yellow to brownish yellow; funiculus segments 2 to 5 not longer than broad; scape broadly oval in cross section. Petiole low, narrowing to emarginate dorsal border. Body pubescence coarse but sparse. Body hairs short. longest gaster hairs less than one third maximum hind tibial width. Front tibiae and scape without erect hairs. occasionally present on hind tibiae. Length: 3.5-4.5 mm (Collingwood 1979).

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Throughout north Eurasia and subalpine regions of Central Europe (Collingwood 1979).

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 65.256706° to 35.248591°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Channel Islands, Croatia, Czechia, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, Denmark, Estonia, Finland (type locality), Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iberian Peninsula, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, North Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Biology

Flight Period

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Association with Other Organisms

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This species is a host for the ant Lasius fuliginosus (a temporary parasite) (de la Mora et al., 2021; Janda et al., 2004) (unconfirmed).

Reports of Lasius mixtus invading Lasius alienus nests (Janda et al., 2004) are a possible misidentification of the host due to subsequent taxonomic revision (de la Mora et al., 2021).

Castes

Queen

Images from AntWeb

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Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0172755. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Male

Images from AntWeb

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Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0172756. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • mixtus. Formica mixta Nylander, 1846b: 1050 (w.q.m.) FINLAND. Combination in Lasius: Mayr, 1861: 50; in Donisthorpea: Donisthorpe, 1915d: 236; in Formicina: Emery, 1916b: 242; in Acanthomyops: Ruzsky, 1925b: 45; in Lasius (Chthonolasius): Ruzsky, 1914a: 59; Emery, 1925b: 234; Wilson, 1955a: 150. Subspecies of umbratus: Forel, 1874: 47; Mayr, 1886d: 430; Wheeler, W.M. 1904e: 305; Bondroit, 1910: 485; Emery, 1914d: 159; Wheeler, W.M. 1917a: 528; Wheeler, W.M. 1917h: 167; Emery, 1922b: 13; Emery, 1925b: 234; Karavaiev, 1927c: 279. Status as species: André, 1882b: 196; Nasonov, 1889: 24; Ruzsky, 1902d: 15; Bondroit, 1912: 352; Donisthorpe, 1915d: 236; Emery, 1916b: 242; Bondroit, 1918: 32; Finzi, 1930d: 317; Stärcke, 1937: 52; Stitz, 1939: 295; Holgersen, 1940: 185; Novak & Sadil, 1941: 103. Junior synonym of umbratus: Wilson, 1955a: 150. Revived from synonymy and status as species: Collingwood, 1962: 219; Collingwood, 1963: 149; Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969: 80; Kutter, 1977c: 233; Collingwood, 1979: 106; Seifert, 1988: 145; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 249. See also: Radchenko, 2007: 34.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

Worker

Borowiec and Salata (2022) - Monomorphic, large, HL 0.968-1.127, HW 0.897-1.040, ML 1.14-1.29. Scape moderately elongate, SL 0.794-0.905. Color. Whole body including appendages pale yellow. Structure and setation. Head slightly longer than wide, sides rounded, occipital margin straight to slightly concave. Eyes very small, head length at least 6.1 times the maximum diameter of eye. Whole frontal head covered with moderately long, appressed and moderately dense pubescence and sparse, short, erected setae, surface visible, distinctly microsculptured but shiny. Occipital part of head with 8-14 short erected setae. Gena and underside of head with numerous erected setae. Mesosomal dorsum with several long erected setae, length of the longest seta 0.063. Below propodeal spiracle 5-8 short erected setae. Antennal scapi not flattened, anterior surface with short appressed and slightly decumbent pubescence lacking erected setae, at most with some subdecumbent pubescence, posterior surface also at most with decumbent pubescence but lacking erected setae. Hind tibiae moderately broad and flattened, usually lacking erected setae on external surface or at most with 1-3 short erected setae. Ventral surface of femora and tibiae with few erected setae, anterior surface of fore coxa with few short erected setae. Pubescence on appendages, head and mesosoma dense and whitish, , on gaster distinctly denser than on mesosoma and partly covering surface. Pubescence of clypeus sparse, not covering clypeus surface. Surface of gastral tergites distinctly sculptured but shiny, first gastral tergite on the whole surface with dense, short erected setae hardly visible in profile. Petiolar scale slightly broadened in the middle, slightly narrowed anterad, upper margin with shallow median emargination or truncate. Propodeum in lateral view high, slightly conical or with obtuse top, metanotal groove deep.

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