Lasiini

Lasiini
Lasius alienus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Lasiini Ashmead, 1905

Lasiini is a tribe of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. There are about 10 genera and more than 450 described species in Lasiini.[1][2][3][4]

Paratrechina flavipes

Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Lasiini:[5]

• Cladomyrma Wheeler, 1920
• Euprenolepis Emery, 1906
• Lasius Fabricius, 1804 – cornfield ants, citronella ants
• Metalasius Boudinot et al., 2022
• Myrmecocystus Wesmael, 1838 – honeypot ants
• Nylanderia Emery, 1906 – crazy ants
• Paraparatrechina Donisthorpe, 1947
• Paratrechina Motschoulsky, 1863
• Prenolepis Mayr, 1861 – false honey ants
• Pseudolasius Emery, 1887
• Zatania LaPolla et al., 2012

References

1. "Lasiini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Lasiini tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. Ward, Philip S.; Blaimer, Bonnie B.; Fisher, Brian L. (2016). "A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex". Zootaxa. 4072 (3): 343–57. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.4. PMID 27395929.
4. "AntWeb". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
5. Bolton, B. (2023), "An online catalog of the ants of the world.", AntCat, retrieved 15 October 2023