Lasius sitkaensis

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Lasius sitkaensis Pergande, 1900 junior synonym of current valid taxon Lasius pallitarsis (Provancher, 1881)

Lasius niger subsp. sitkaensis Pergande, 1900: 519 (w.) U.S.A. (Alaska). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Wilson, 1955a: 37). Primary type locality: lectotype U.S.A.: Alaska, Sitka, vi.1899, Harriman Alaska Expd. (T. Kincaid). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 24 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC, USNM.

Lectotype designation: Wilson, 1955a: 37.
Wheeler, 1917a: 525 (q.m.)
Combination in Lasius (Lasius): Wheeler, 1916o: 172; Wilson, 1955a: 36.
Subspecies of Lasius niger: Wheeler, 1910a: 569; Wheeler, 1916o: 172; Wheeler, 1917a: 524; Wheeler, 1917e: 18; Emery, 1925d: 230; Essig, 1926: 866; Menozzi, 1932b: 311; Cole, 1936a: 37; Cole, 1937b: 137; Wing, 1939: 164; Cole, 1942: 374; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944: 255; Smith, 1951c: 851.
Status as species: Wilson, 1955a: 36 (redescription); Smith, 1958c: 148; Collingwood, 1962c: 219; Beck et al., 1967: 71; Smith, 1967a: 367; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1978b: 393.
Junior synonym of Lasius neoniger: Creighton, 1950a: 420.
Junior synonym of Lasius pallitarsis: Francoeur & Béique, 1966a: 144; Smith, 1979: 1437; Blacker, 1992: 9; Bolton, 1995b: 225; Coovert, 2005: 123.

Obsolete combinations

Lasius niger sitkaensis

Citations

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