Lasius lasioides

Species known from Mediterranean Europe, Anatolia and along the Atlas mountains (Morocco). This is the first published record for Sardinia (Rigato & Toni, 2011).

Distribution
This taxon was described from Italy.

Nomenclature

 * fumatus. Lasius fumatus Emery, 1869b: 26, fig. 3 (w.q.) ITALY. Junior synonym of lasioides: Emery, 1870: 194. [The species referred to as Prenolepis lasioides in the text of Emery, 1869b: 6, is referred to in the list of figures for that paper (p. 26) as Lasius fumatus. Both names refer to the same specimens and hence are automatically synonymous.]
 * fuscula. Prenolepis fusculus Emery, 1869b: 8, pl. 1, fig. 4 (w.) ITALY. [Also referred to as Lasius fusculus by Emery, 1869b: 26.] Junior synonym of lasioides: Dalla Torre, 1893: 182.
 *  lasioides. Prenolepis lasioides Emery, 1869b: 6, pl. 1, fig. 3 (w.q.m.) ITALY. Combination in Lasius: Emery, 1870: 194; in Formicina (Donisthorpea): Emery, 1916b: 241; in Acanthomyops: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927e: 189; in Lasius: Müller, 1923: 126; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929b: 38. Subspecies of alienus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 182; of niger: Forel, 1913d: 434; Emery, 1916b: 241; Menozzi, 1925d: 34. Revived status as species: Stärcke, 1944a: 155. Junior synonym of alienus: Wilson, 1955a: 77; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 58 [Repeat of this synonymy in Arakelian, 1994: 117, is ignored]. Revived from synonymy: Seifert, 1992b: 8. Senior synonym of fumatus: Emery, 1870: 194; of fuscula: Dalla Torre, 1893: 182; of barbarus: Seifert, 1992b: 8.
 * barbarus. Lasius alienus var. barbarus Santschi, 1931a: 11 (w.) MOROCCO. [First available use of Lasius niger st. lasioides var. barbara Santschi, 1921e: 170; unavailable name.] Subspecies of brunneus: Santschi, 1936c: 208. Junior synonym of alienus: Wilson, 1955a: 78; of lasioides: Seifert, 1992b: 8.

Additional References

 * Rigato, S.; 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.