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Lasius subglaber Emery, 1893 valid

Lasius (Acanthomyops) claviger var. subglaber Emery, 1893k: 642 (w.q.m.) U.S.A. (District of Columbia). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: U.S.A.: District of Columbia, Washington, 2.viii.1891, no. 386 (no collector’s name, probably T. Pergande). Primary type depositories: AMNH, MSNG, USNM. Type notes: 1) Wing, 1968a: 121, cites 1 worker, 1 queen, 1 male syntypes in AMNH. 2) Apparently none in USNM, cited as present by Creighton, 1950a: 433.

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953c: 155 (l.)
Combination in Acanthomyops: Creighton, 1950a: 433; Wing, 1968a: 121.
Combination in Lasius: Ward, 2005: 13.
Subspecies of Lasius claviger: Wheeler, 1905j: 398; Wheeler, 1908i: 623; Wheeler, 1910a: 569; Wheeler, 1916o: 172; Wheeler, 1917a: 533; Emery, 1925d: 237; Wing, 1939: 164; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944: 256; Smith, 1951c: 853.
Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 433; Buren, 1950: 185; Smith, 1958c: 151; Smith, 1967a: 369; Wing, 1968a: 121 (redescription); Francoeur, 1977b: 207; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1977b: 5 (in key); Smith, 1979: 1442; Wheeler et al., 1994: 305; Bolton, 1995b: 53; Coovert, 2005: 132; Ellison et al., 2012: 201.
Senior synonym of Lasius clavigeroides: Creighton, 1950a: 433; Smith, 1958c: 151; Wing, 1968a: 121; Smith, 1979: 1442; Bolton, 1995b: 53.

Junior synonyms

Lasius clavigeroides Buren, 1942

Obsolete combinations

Lasius claviger subglaber

Citations

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Emery, C. 1893k. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamerikanischen Ameisenfauna. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 7:633-682. PDF
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