Lasiini
Lasiini | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Lasiini Ashmead, 1905 |
Type genus | |
Lasius | |
Diversity | |
11 genera 469 species 0 fossil genera 29 fossil species | |
Synonyms | |
Identification
List of Genera
Extant Genera
Cladomyrma • Euprenolepis • Lasius • Metalasius • Myrmecocystus • Nylanderia • Paraparatrechina • Paratrechina • Prenolepis • Pseudolasius • Zatania
Fossil Genera
No fossil genera within tribe.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- LASIINI [tribe of Formicinae]
- Lasiini Ashmead, 1905b: 384. Type-genus: Lasius Fabricius, 1804: 415.
Taxonomic History
- Lasiini as junior synonym of Formicini: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 698; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1970: 651; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1985: 258; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18.
- Lasiini as tribe of Formicinae: Ashmead, 1905b: 384; Emery, 1925b: 212; Karavaiev, 1936: 192; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77; Jaffe 1993: 12; Bolton, 1994: 50; Bolton, 2003: 21, 94; Ward, et al. 2016: 347.
- Lasiini as senior synonym of Acanthomyopsini: Bolton, 1994: 50.
- Lasiini as senior synonym of Prenolepidini: Ward, et al. 2016: 347
Taxonomic References
Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 940, 1037 (Afrotropical, Malagasy catalogues); Emery, 1925b: 212 (diagnosis, genera key, catalogue); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18 (synoptic classification); Brandão, 1991: 393 (Neotropical synoptic classification); Bolton, 1994: 50 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1039 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 12 (catalogue); Bolton, 2003: 21, 94 (diagnosis, synopsis); Ward, et al. 2016: 347 (synopsis).