Lasius myops

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Lasius myops
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Lasiini
Genus: Lasius
Section: flavus clade
Species group: flavus
Species: L. myops
Binomial name
Lasius myops
Forel, 1894

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Specimen Labels

Synonyms

In Russia this species is found in drier areas or occasionally in oak forests (Zryanin & Zryanina, 2007).

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 51.214444° to 31.083333°.

   
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Subtropical
Tropical South
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Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Algeria (type locality), Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iberian Peninsula, Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, North Macedonia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye, Ukraine.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

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This species is a host for the ant Lasius reginae (a temporary parasite) (de la Mora et al., 2021; Janda et al., 2004; Seifert, 2018) (unconfirmed).

Castes

Worker

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Images from AntWeb

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Worker. Specimen code casent0906073. Photographer Shannon Hartman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Syntype of Lasius myopsWorker. Specimen code casent0907598. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MZL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

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

  • myops. Lasius flavus r. myops Forel, 1894d: 12 (w.) ALGERIA. Forel, 1915d: 54 (in key) (q.); Seifert, 1983: 13 (m.). Combination in Formicina: Emery, 1916b: 241; in Chthonolasius: Ruzsky, 1925a: 288; in Acanthomyops: Ruzsky, 1925b: 44; in Lasius: Müller, 1923: 128; in L. (Chthonolasius): Ruzsky, 1914a: 59; in L. (Cautolasius): Wilson, 1955a: 112. Subspecies of flavus: Forel, 1915d: 51; Emery, 1916b: 241; Müller, 1923: 128; Karavaiev, 1927c: 278. Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1905f: 397; Bondroit, 1918: 29; Ruzsky, 1925a: 288. Junior synonym of flavus: Wilson, 1955a: 112; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 241; Arakelian, 1994: 120. Revived from synonymy, raised to species and senior synonym of flavoides, flavomyops: Kutter, 1977c: 229; Seifert, 1983: 13; Bolton, 1995b: 224.
  • flavomyops. Formicina flava var. flavomyops Emery, 1916b: 241 (w.) SWITZERLAND. [First available use of Lasius flavus r. myops var. flavomyops Forel, 1915d: 52 (in key); unavailable name.] Combination in Lasius: Emery, 1925b: 231. Junior synonym of flavoides: Emery, 1925b: 231. Revived from synonymy and raised to species: Röszler, 1943: 47. Junior synonym of flavus: Wilson, 1955a: 112; of myops: Kutter, 1977c: 229.
  • flavoides. Lasius flavus var. flavoides Emery, 1925b: 231 (w.) SWITZERLAND. [First available use of Lasius flavus subsp. myops var. flavoides Forel, 1894d: 12; unavailable name.] Röszler, 1943: 47 (q.m.). Subspecies of myops: Ruzsky, 1925a: 288; of flavus: Karavaiev, 1936: 209. Junior synonym of flavus: Wilson, 1955a: 112; of myops: Kutter, 1977c: 229.

Description

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