Lasius alienus
34. Lasius alienus (Forster, 1850) Figs. 128-130. Formica aliena Forster, 1850:36. Worker. Greyish yellow to brownish black. Pubescence adpressed, moderately thick over whole body and appendages. Short erect hairs scattered over dorsum and round whole occipital margin of head. Back of head convex. O...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.6283845 2023-05-15T16:12:06+02:00 Lasius alienus Collingwood, C. A. 1979 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283845 https://zenodo.org/record/6283845 unknown Zenodo http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD3B0D337E1DDAA0E4761CC6B14CB110 https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD3B0D337E1DDAA0E4761CC6B14CB110 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283846 https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit Open Access Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC0 Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Hymenoptera Formicidae Lasius Lasius alienus article-journal ScholarlyArticle Taxonomic treatment Text 1979 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283845 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283846 2022-04-01T12:39:03Z 34. Lasius alienus (Forster, 1850) Figs. 128-130. Formica aliena Forster, 1850:36. Worker. Greyish yellow to brownish black. Pubescence adpressed, moderately thick over whole body and appendages. Short erect hairs scattered over dorsum and round whole occipital margin of head. Back of head convex. Ocelli indistinct or invisible; frontal furrow indistinct. Erect hairs absent on scape and front tibiae, sometimes present on hind tibiae. Length: 3.0-4.2 mm. Queen. Greyish black to brownish black. Wings hyaline. Head much narrower than broad alitrunk. Pubescence and pilosity as in worker, no erect hairs on scape and front tibiae. Length: 8.0-9.0 mm. Male. Greyish black. Wings hyaline. No erect hairs on tibiae or scapes. Length: 3.0-3.8 mm. Distribution. Common in Denmark and South Sweden; in Norway only recorded from. O, HE and VE; in Finland recorded as far north as Ob and Ks. - Common in South Britain, local in Ireland and Southwest Scotland. - Range: Portugal to Japan also Himalayas, North Africa to Finland. Also North America (Wilson, 1955). Biology. This wide ranging species nests in the soil on sandy lowland heaths, dry open pasture, sea cliffs and rocky outcrops in North Europe. Its habits are mainly subterranean, feeding on the exudates of root aphids but also by scavenging and predating small insects. Workers are generally unobtrusive and non aggressive compared with Lasius niger. Nests are single queened founded by solitary fertilised queens. Mating swarms occur in August. : Published as part of Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., pp. 1-174 in Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8 on pages 97-98 Text Fennoscandia DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Norway |
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34. Lasius alienus (Forster, 1850) Figs. 128-130. Formica aliena Forster, 1850:36. Worker. Greyish yellow to brownish black. Pubescence adpressed, moderately thick over whole body and appendages. Short erect hairs scattered over dorsum and round whole occipital margin of head. Back of head convex. Ocelli indistinct or invisible; frontal furrow indistinct. Erect hairs absent on scape and front tibiae, sometimes present on hind tibiae. Length: 3.0-4.2 mm. Queen. Greyish black to brownish black. Wings hyaline. Head much narrower than broad alitrunk. Pubescence and pilosity as in worker, no erect hairs on scape and front tibiae. Length: 8.0-9.0 mm. Male. Greyish black. Wings hyaline. No erect hairs on tibiae or scapes. Length: 3.0-3.8 mm. Distribution. Common in Denmark and South Sweden; in Norway only recorded from. O, HE and VE; in Finland recorded as far north as Ob and Ks. - Common in South Britain, local in Ireland and Southwest Scotland. - Range: Portugal to Japan also Himalayas, North Africa to Finland. Also North America (Wilson, 1955). Biology. This wide ranging species nests in the soil on sandy lowland heaths, dry open pasture, sea cliffs and rocky outcrops in North Europe. Its habits are mainly subterranean, feeding on the exudates of root aphids but also by scavenging and predating small insects. Workers are generally unobtrusive and non aggressive compared with Lasius niger. Nests are single queened founded by solitary fertilised queens. Mating swarms occur in August. : Published as part of Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., pp. 1-174 in Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8 on pages 97-98 |
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