• [Unnecessary replacement name for Lasius Fabricius, 1804.]
• Donisthorpea in Formicinae, Acanthomyopsini: Donisthorpe, 1943g: 640; Donisthorpe, 1946b: 91.
• Donisthorpea as genus: Morice & Durrant, 1915: 423; Donisthorpe, 1915f: 184.
• Donisthorpea as subgenus of Formicina: Emery, 1916b: 11; Emery, 1916a: 240; Wheeler, 1916o: 170.
• Donisthorpea as subgenus of Acanthomyops: Donisthorpe, 1927c: 229; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 640; Donisthorpe, 1946b: 91.
• Donisthorpea as junior synonym of Acanthomyops: Forel, 1916: 460; Morice & Durrant, 1917: 442; Donisthorpe, 1927c: 209.
• Donisthorpea as junior synonym of Lasius: Wheeler, 1916o: 172; Wheeler, 1922: 698; Emery, 1925d: 226; Wilson, 1955a: 11; Smith, 1979: 1435; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18; Bolton, 1995b: 27; Tang et al., 1995: 108; Boudinot et al., 2022: 135.
• [Note: Lasius and Donisthorpea share the same type-species; synonymy is therefore absolute.]

Obsolete classifications

• Acanthomyops (Donisthorpea)
• Formicina (Donisthorpea)
• Lasius (Donisthorpea)

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Donisthorpe, H. 1915f. British ants, their life-history and classification. Plymouth: Brendon & Son Ltd., xv + 379 pp. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1927c. British ants, their life history and classification (2nd edn.). London: G. Routledge and Sons, xvi + 436 pp.
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• Morice, F. D.; Durrant, J. H. 1917. Further notes on the "Jurinean" genera of Hymenoptera, correcting errors and omissions in a paper on that subject published in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1914, pp. 339-436. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1916:432-442. PDF
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• Tang, J.; Li, S.; Huang, E.; Zhang, B.; Chen, Y. 1995. Economic insect fauna of China. Fasc. 47. Hymenoptera: Formicidae (1). [In Chinese.]. Beijing: Academy of Science Publishing House, ix + 134 pp.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1916o. Questions of nomenclature connected with the ant genus Lasius and its subgenera. Psyche (Cambridge) 23:168-173. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
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