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Lasius flavus

Yellow meadow ant

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Lasius flavus

AntCat · view at source · updated on 08/10/2026

Author: (Fabricius, 1782) species Valid name

Formicidae

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

(c) naturalist_ua, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

no rights reserved, uploaded by Philipp Hoenle · CC0 · iNaturalist

(c) Ryzhkov Oleg, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ryzhkov Oleg · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Samuel P.C., some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Samuel P.C. · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

Occurrences (GBIF) 53 countries · 23556 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	12
1906	10
1907	94
1908	16
1909	28
1910	14
1911	10
1912	16
1913	19
1914	13
1915	12
1916	1
1917	7
1918	3
1919	5
1920	39
1921	25
1922	41
1923	29
1924	37
1925	32
1926	4
1927	26
1928	14
1929	29
1930	72
1931	11
1932	49
1933	110
1934	35
1935	39
1936	46
1937	45
1938	47
1939	92
1940	66
1941	94
1942	14
1943	42
1944	76
1945	13
1946	19
1947	99
1948	27
1949	47
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	208
1978	65
1979	64
1980	123
1981	75
1982	113
1983	45
1984	92
1985	96
1986	96
1987	152
1988	106
1989	119
1990	52
1991	49
1992	113
1993	187
1994	78
1995	86
1996	104
1997	100
1998	98
1999	250
2000	215
2001	265
2002	494
2003	227
2004	235
2005	212
2006	210
2007	334
2008	449
2009	737
2010	551
2011	559
2012	607
2013	541
2014	669
2015	685
2016	714
2017	767
2018	672
2019	1,104
2020	774
2021	792
2022	745
2023	985
2024	858
2025	951
2026	872

United Kingdom · 7,294 Belgium · 2,788 Sweden · 2,657 Switzerland · 1,776 France · 1,375 Denmark · 1,199 Netherlands · 959 United States · 940 Germany · 881 Norway · 718 Finland · 470 Russia · 370 Luxembourg · 276 Poland · 252 Spain · 199 Ireland · 175 Canada · 172 Austria · 161 Italy · 137 Isle of Man · 130 Estonia · 89 Hungary · 83 Japan · 50 Ukraine · 47 Greece · 44 Slovenia · 35 Serbia · 31 Czechia · 29 Croatia · 26 South Korea · 20 Slovakia · 19 Morocco · 18 Bulgaria · 17 Türkiye · 14 Romania · 14 Åland Islands · 13 Colombia · 11 China · 10 Lithuania · 10 Albania · 9 Guernsey · 8 Jersey · 7 Andorra · 5 Latvia · 4 Belarus · 3 Kazakhstan · 2 Moldova · 2 Unknown Region · 2 Armenia · 1 Algeria · 1 Iran · 1 Kosovo · 1 Georgia · 1

Italy 05/10/2026 · spirit_01 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

United Kingdom 04/10/2026 · Ben Thompson · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Russia 04/10/2026 · Елена Клейменова · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Slovakia 03/10/2026 · Patrik · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum (innergården), Vg, Sweden 01/10/2026 · User12746, User155820, User21501 · SLU Artdatabanken · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record

Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum (innergården), Sweden 01/10/2026 · Gran, Oskar Olof; Stragapede, Emily; Pettersson, Moa N.K · GNM · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record

France 30/09/2026 · victor-shso · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Carolinaparken, Uppsala, Upl, Sweden 27/09/2026 · User11855 · SLU Artdatabanken · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record

Russia 26/09/2026 · Светлана Нестерова · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Ukraine 25/09/2026 · Female · Влад · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

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