Lasius lasioides (Emery)
 Type location Italy (Prenolepis
lasioides, Emery, 1869b: 6, illustrated, all forms; junior synonym
of alienus in Wilson, 1955a: 78; species status confirmed
Seifert, 1992b: 8) - no type images on Antweb (March 2019)
junior synonyms
fumatus (Lasius fumatus,
Emery, 1869b: 26, illustrated, worker & queen, given as an
alternative name for laisiodes;
synonymy by Emery,
1870: 195) from Italy - no images on Antweb (March 2019)
fuscula (Prenolepis fuscula,
Emery, 1869b: 8, illustrated, worker; synonymy by Dalla Torre, 1893:
183) from Italy - no images on Antweb (March 2019).
barbara (Lasius niger st lasioides
var barbara, Santschi, 1921e: 170; Lasius alienus var barbarus,
Santschi, 1931: 11, record of a single male from Kenitra, Morocco;
synonym of alienus in Wilson, 1955a: 78; synonym of lasioides
by Seifert, 1992b: 8) from Morocco - see below
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 Emery's
(1869b) description is at  (illustration of wing and anterior of petiole).
Emery (1916b: 244)
separated lasioides in a key by - frontal sulcus indistinct or
nearly so; colour reddish-brown, head duller, gaster brown-black;
tibiae without erect hairs or almost so; quite slender and less
pubescent than type; TL 2.2-3.0 mm.
Santschi's (1921e) separation of barbara was
worker TL
2.6-2.8 mm; differing from race lasioides by the black colour
or near black, with brownish appendages and clearer antennae, general
shinier appearance of the body (from Morocco and Tunisia). Bondroit
(1918: 27) gave a description, this is at  . Seifert's (1992b) modern description is
at  .
Egypt record - worker (as Lasius niger r.
lasioides)
from Fajum (Forel, 1913d: 434).
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The photomontage
of a lectotype worker of 
The photomontage
of a worker from Spain is
collated from