Abstract
The present paper provides a description of the male caste and re-description of the worker and queen castes of the poorly known ant species Lasius alienoflavus Bingham, 1903. This species has hitherto been reported only from the Himalayas, and the present data are also based on specimens collected in the north-western part of the mountain range. Likewise other Himalayan ants, this species also shows restricted distribution, which suggests a rather high degree of endemism (45%) of this group in the Himalayas.
Highlights
The genus Lasius Fabricius, 1804 is hithrto known to comprise 111 extant species and 3 subspecies (Bolton 2014)
A revision of Lasius was published by Wilson (1955), where the author placed several species, i.e. L. flavus (Fabricius, 1804), L. nearcticus Wheeler, 1906 L. alienoflavus Bingham, 1903, L. talpa Wilson, 1955 and L. fallax Wilson, 1955 forming the flavus-group in a distinct subgenus Cautolasius Wilson, 1955, and provided a key to the Palaearctic species
Specimens have been deposited in PUPAC, Punjabi University Patiala Ant Collection, Patiala
Summary
The genus Lasius Fabricius, 1804 is hithrto known to comprise 111 extant species and 3 subspecies (Bolton 2014). Country: India; stateProvince: North-West Himalaya; verbatimLocality: Himachal Pradesh: Khajjiar; maximumElevationInMeters: 2100; eventDate: 2010-07-01; sex: 23 workers; recordedBy: Irfan Gul; collectionCode: Insect (Ants) b.
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