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Lasius flavus

Yellow meadow ant

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Lasius flavus (Fabricius, 1782)

GBIF · view at source · updated on 03/07/2026

Yellow Meadow Ant

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Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Lasius

Yellow meadow ant

Wikidata · view at source · CC0 · updated on 03/07/2026

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species of insect

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(c) Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Enrico Strada, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Enrico Strada · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Shamil Murtazin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Shamil Murtazin · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) David Bellamy, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by David Bellamy · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

Occurrences (GBIF) 52 countries · 23449 records

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Occurrences by year

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Year	Records
1853	16
1855	2
1856	2
1857	4
1858	6
1866	2
1869	2
1870	2
1872	2
1873	5
1877	6
1879	4
1881	8
1882	2
1883	4
1884	1
1886	2
1889	2
1891	1
1892	2
1894	2
1895	3
1896	5
1898	1
1899	1
1900	1
1901	13
1902	6
1903	4
1904	3
1905	10
1906	10
1907	94
1908	16
1909	28
1910	14
1911	10
1912	18
1913	19
1914	13
1915	12
1916	2
1917	7
1918	3
1919	5
1920	39
1921	25
1922	41
1923	29
1924	25
1925	32
1926	4
1927	26
1928	14
1929	29
1930	72
1931	11
1932	49
1933	108
1934	33
1935	40
1936	41
1937	46
1938	47
1939	92
1940	66
1941	94
1942	14
1943	37
1944	76
1945	9
1946	20
1947	99
1948	27
1949	49
1950	47
1951	105
1952	125
1953	41
1954	84
1955	58
1956	38
1957	83
1958	78
1959	105
1960	66
1961	70
1962	68
1963	51
1964	106
1965	74
1966	108
1967	86
1968	80
1969	118
1970	152
1971	76
1972	92
1973	69
1974	53
1975	63
1976	49
1977	210
1978	64
1979	61
1980	122
1981	75
1982	113
1983	46
1984	92
1985	95
1986	97
1987	147
1988	109
1989	119
1990	52
1991	65
1992	119
1993	187
1994	80
1995	95
1996	108
1997	101
1998	99
1999	249
2000	215
2001	265
2002	494
2003	226
2004	235
2005	211
2006	210
2007	334
2008	449
2009	737
2010	556
2011	556
2012	619
2013	544
2014	667
2015	691
2016	709
2017	768
2018	700
2019	1,408
2020	789
2021	799
2022	749
2023	981
2024	857
2025	869
2026	467

United Kingdom · 6,938 Belgium · 2,783 Sweden · 2,663 Switzerland · 2,170 France · 1,374 Denmark · 1,194 Netherlands · 954 United States · 934 Germany · 849 Norway · 703 Finland · 512 Russia · 325 Luxembourg · 276 Poland · 251 Spain · 195 Ireland · 174 Canada · 172 Austria · 162 Italy · 135 Isle of Man · 108 Estonia · 90 Hungary · 82 Japan · 49 Ukraine · 43 Slovenia · 35 Serbia · 31 Czechia · 29 Croatia · 23 Slovakia · 21 South Korea · 20 Morocco · 18 Greece · 18 Bulgaria · 17 Turkey · 15 Åland Islands · 13 Colombia · 11 China · 10 Lithuania · 10 Albania · 9 Romania · 6 Andorra · 4 Latvia · 4 Guernsey · 4 Belarus · 3 Jersey · 2 Kazakhstan · 2 Moldova · 2 Unknown Region · 2 Armenia · 1 Algeria · 1 Iran · 1 Kosovo · 1

Wageningen - Veluvia Hamelakkers, Netherlands 14/08/2026 · Female · User 19474 · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Vinkeveen - Vinkeveense Plassen, Netherlands 13/08/2026 · User 43599 · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Russia 10/08/2026 · feodorzav · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Luxembourg 09/08/2026 · fredur · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

United Kingdom 09/08/2026 · Ben Thompson · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Russia 09/08/2026 · Female · elena_garipova · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Russia 08/08/2026 · Puzankov Aleksei · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Edö ö, Upl, Sweden 07/08/2026 · Fingal Gyllang · SLU Artdatabanken · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record

Belgium 07/08/2026 · Jelle · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Russia 07/08/2026 · tetramorium_caespitum · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

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