SUBFAMILY FORMICINAE - Genus Lasius Fabricius
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The Ants of
Egypt SUBFAMILY FORMICINAE - Genus Lasius Fabricius |
In Tribe Lasiini.
Diagnostic Features - worker size small to medium; bodies robust, with head massive relative to the alitrunk; palpal segmentation 6, 4; mandibles with 7-12 teeth folowing the typical formicine pattern; alitrunk not conspicuously constricted or otherwise specialised, mesonotum profile typically convex; propodeal spiracle round; petiole scale profile prominent, erect and typically symmetrical (after Wilson, 1955a: 10).
Fabricius' (1804) genus description is at
(unavailable). Wilson (1955a: 9) made an extensive genus revision which
has been surpassed by Seifert's (1992) comprehensive revision of the
Palaearctic species, this is at
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Egyptian species - Lasius lasioides (Emery)
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