• Lectotype designation: Wilson, 1955a: 76.
• Combination in Lasius (Lasius): Seifert, 2020a: 16.
• Junior synonym of Lasius niger: Wilson, 1955a: 60; Bernard, 1967a: 355; Smith, 1979: 1436.
• Status as species: Seifert, 1992b: 38 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 224; Seifert, 2020a: 75.

Obsolete combinations

• Lasius emarginatus nigrescens

Citations

• Bernard, F. 1967a ("1968"). Faune de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen. 3. Les fourmis (Hymenoptera Formicidae) d'Europe occidentale et septentrionale. Paris: Masson, 411 pp. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Seifert, B. 1992b. A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic members of the ant subgenus Lasius s.str. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Görlitz 66(5):1-67. PDF
• Seifert, B. 2020a. A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic members of the subgenus Lasius s.str. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Soil Organisms 92 (1):15-86. 10.25674/so92iss1pp15 PDF
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
• Stitz, H. 1930a. Entomologische Ergebnisse der Deutsch-Russischen Alai-Pamir Expedition 1928 (1). 5. Hymenoptera III. Formicidae. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 16:238-240. PDF
• Wilson, E. O. 1955a. A monographic revision of the ant genus Lasius. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 113:1-201. PDF