Prolasius

Identification

 * Key to Afrotropical Proceratium species groups

Castes


Worker of P. nitidissimus from Tasmania.

Species Uncertain

 * Prolasius sp.(ANIC-1):
 * Prolasius sp.(ANIC-2):

Nomenclature

 *  PROLASIUS [Formicinae: Lasiini]
 * Prolasius Forel, 1892c: 331 [as subgenus of Lasius]. Type-species: Formica advena, by monotypy.
 * Prolasius subgenus of Lasius: Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 143.
 * Prolasius subgenus of Melophorus: Forel, 1917: 248; Emery, 1925b: 13.
 * Prolasius raised to genus: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 695; Clark, 1934c: 66; Wheeler, W.M. 1935c: 71.