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Species
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyFormicidae
Observations recorded49,202
The ants love Honey and Sugar water. Their young also eat small insects.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4,906
- With media
- 55
- Family
- Formicidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
- Recorded in
- Belgium
Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Lasius niger
- taxon name
- Lasius niger
- taxon rank
- species
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- Lasius niger
- taxon common name
- formiga prieta
- diel cycle
- diurnality
- longest observed lifespan
- 28
- short name
- L. niger
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Encyclopedic overview
Black garden ant with the mandibles of an unidentified creature.
The black garden ant (Lasius niger), also known as the common black ant, is a formicine ant, the type species of the genus Lasius, which is found across Europe and in some parts of North America, and Asia. The European species was split into two species; L. niger, which is found in open areas; and L. platythorax, which is found in forest habitats. It is monogynous, meaning colonies contain a single queen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lasius niger” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.