Lasius niger (Linnaeus, 1758)

Lapeva-Gjonova, Albena, Antonova, Vera, Radchenko, Alexander G. & Atanasova, Maria, 2010, Catalogue of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Bulgaria, ZooKeys 62, pp. 1-124 : 26

Lasius niger (Linnaeus, 1758)

Lasius niger var. alienoniger Forel, 1874: Forel 1892, Atanassov 1936, 1952 (see Notes below)

Records

(Map 55): Bulgaria ( Agosti and Collingwood 1987a, Atanassov and Dlusskij 1992, Seifert 1992); Western Predbalkan: Krapets vill. [ Atanassov 1936 (as Lasius alieno niger )]; CentralPredbalkan: Dermantsi vill. (Lukovit) [ Atanassov 1934, 1936 (as Lasius alieno niger )]; Western Stara Planina Mts: Chepan (Dragoman) ( Borisova et al. 2005); EasternStara Planina Mts: Sliven ( Forel 1892); Zemen Gorge: Skakavitsa waterfall ( Atanassov 1936); Vitosha Mt. [ Atanassov 1952 (as Lasius niger L. var. alieno-niger Forel), Hlaváč et al. 2007]; Sofia Basin: Sofia [ Atanassov 1936 (as Lasius alieno niger ), Antonova 2004, 2005, Lapeva-Gjonova 2004b, Lapeva-Gjonova and Atanasova 2004, Antonova and Penev 2006, 2008, Hlaváč et al. 2007], the surroundings of Sofia near Vladaya vill. ( Antonova and Penev 2006, 2008); Plana Mt.: Pasarel vill. ( Vagalinski and Lapeva-Gjonova in press); Podbalkan Basins: Rose valley ( Atanassov et al. 1955); Lozenska Planina Mt. ( Vassilev and Evtimov 1973): near German monastery ( Antonova and Penev 2008); Belasitsa Mt. ( Atanassov 1964); Krupnik-Sandanski-Petrich Valley: around Mitino vill., Petrich plain ( Atanassov 1964); Rila Mt.: the valley of Rilska river [ Forel 1892 (as Lasius niger Rasse alienus var. alieno-niger)]; Western Rhodopi Mts: Asenovgrad [ Forel 1892 (as Lasius niger Rasse alienus var. alieno-niger)], Devin, Peshtera, Batak ( Lapeva-Gjonova in press (a)); Southern Black Sea coast: Burgas, Sozopol [ Forel 1892 (as Lasius niger Rasse alienus var. alieno-niger)], Veselie vill. ( Forel 1892).

Notes:

Some of the above mentioned records most probably include also closely related Lasius platythorax . Lasius niger alienoniger Forel, 1874 has been considered by different authors to be a separate species or a junior synonym of Lasius niger , but Seifert (1992) proposed it should be considered as incertae sedis in Lasius (for details see Bolton 1995, Bolton et al. 2006).