Lasius platythorax
| Lasius platythorax | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Lasiini |
| Genus: | Lasius |
| Species: | L. platythorax |
| Binomial name | |
| Lasius platythorax Seifert, 1991
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A European species very similar to Lasius niger (Rigato & Toni, 2011). It is known to commonly nest in the dead wood (Zryanin & Zryanina, 2007).
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Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany (type locality), Greece, Hungary, Iberian Peninsula, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Distribution based on AntMaps
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Biology
A Croatian study (Bujan et al. 2015) found L. platythorax was numerically dominant in a sampled fen and two adjacent suceesional habitats (reed and willow; young forest: a mixture of willows and different woody and herbaceous species characteristic of the surrounding beech forest). This ant was also present in an adjacent mature beech forest.
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Male
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Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's New General Catalogue, a catalogue of the world's ants.
- platythorax. Lasius (Lasius) platythorax Seifert, 1991: 73, figs. 3, 6, 7 (w.q.) GERMANY. Prince, 1996: 299 (m.). See also: Seifert, 1992b: 29.
Description
References
- Bujan, J., A. Brigic, Z. Sedlar, and R. Sostaric. 2015. Progressive vegetation succession of fen habitats promotes the lack of habitat specialist ants. Insectes Sociaux. 62:415-422. doi:10.1007/s00040-015-0420-8
- Espadaler, X.; Prince, A. 2001. Lasius platythorax Seifert, 1991 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Spain. Orsis (Org. Sist.) 16: 189-192 (page 189, record in Spain)
- Morrison, W.R. & Witte, V. 2011. Strong differences in chemical recognition cues between two closely related species of ants from the genus Lasius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 24: 2389–2397 (doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02364.x).
- Prince, A. J. 1996. Lasius platythorax Seifert 1991 (Hym., Formicidae) on the Somerset Levels, with notes on distinguishing the male from that of Lasius niger (L.). Entomol. Mon. Mag. 132: 299-303 (page 299, male described)
- Rigato, F.; Toni, I. 2011. Short notes 21. Hymenoptera, Formicidae. Pp. 873-882 in: Nardi, G.; Whitmore, D.; Bardiani, M.; Birtele, D.; Mason, F.; Spada, L.; Cerretti, P. (eds.) 2011. Biodiversity of Marganai and Montimannu (Sardinia). Research in the framework of the ICP Forests network. Conservazione Habitat Invertebrati, 5. Sommacampagna, Verona: Cierre Edizioni, 896 pp.
- Seifert, B. 1991b. Lasius platythorax n. sp., a widespread sibling species of Lasius niger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomol. Gen. 16: 69-81 (page 73, figs. 3, 6, 7 worker, queen described)
- Seifert, B. 1992b. A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic members of the ant subgenus Lasius s.str. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Abh. Ber. Naturkundemus. Görlitz 66(5): 1-67 (page 29, see also)
- Zryanin, V.A. and Zryanina, T.A. 2007. Novye dannye o faune murav’ev Srednego Povolzh’ya. Uspekhi Sovremennoj Biologii. 127:226-240. [in Russian]
