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Lasius pallescens
| Lasius pallescens | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Lasiini |
| Genus: | Lasius |
| Species: | L. pallescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Lasius pallescens (Schenck, 1852) | |
Schenck observed a swarming nest at the trunk of an oak near Dillenburg, Hessen. He collected a gyne and a male and described the gyne to be 3.5 lines long, to have a pale yellowish head, mesosoma, petiole, antennae, mandibles and legs, a brown gaster, hirsute scapes and tibiae and hyaline wings. The male was reported to be 2 lines long, to have a brown head, brownish mandibles, a yellowish mesosoma with three brown longitudinal stripes, a brownish scutellum and posterior part of mesosoma and hyaline wings. If Schenck meant Prussian lines, the gyne and male were 7.6 and 4.4 mm long if referring to Hessian lines 8.8 and 5 mm. This description strongly indicates genus Lasius but I do not know a German species to which such a character combination might refer (Seifert, 2020).
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Germany (type locality).
Distribution based on AntMaps
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
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- pallescens. Formica pallescens Schenck, 1852: 55 (q.m.) GERMANY.
- Status as species: Mayr, 1855: 363 (footnote).
- Junior synonym of niger: Roger, 1859: 238; Mayr, 1861: 49 (in key); Mayr, 1863: 425; Roger, 1863b: 11; Mayr, 1865: 55; André, 1874: 202 (in list); Emery & Forel, 1879: 452; Dalla Torre, 1893: 189; Donisthorpe, 1915d: 200; Emery, 1925b: 230; Donisthorpe, 1927b: 229; Karavaiev, 1936: 202; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 205; Bolton, 1995b: 225; Radchenko, 2016: 360.
- Unidentifiable taxon, incertae sedis in Lasius: Seifert, 2020: 80.