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Lasius niger

Black garden ant

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Lasius niger (Linnaeus, 1758)

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

Small Black Ant

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Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Lasius

Lasius niger

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

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species of insect

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(c) Jonghyun Park, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Jonghyun Park · CC BY · iNaturalist
no rights reserved, uploaded by Philipp Hoenle · CC0 · iNaturalist
(c) Jonghyun Park, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Jonghyun Park · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Jonghyun Park, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Jonghyun Park · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) happy_snappy, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by happy_snappy · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist
(c) ullar, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist
Occurrences (GBIF) 62 countries · 49659 records GBIF · updated on 04/07/2026 Maximize Minimize
Georeferenced points from GBIF. Click the map to use the scroll wheel; click a point to view the record.
Occurrences by year
1853: 17 1854: 1 1857: 6 1858: 2 1861: 2 1864: 1 1866: 2 1869: 4 1870: 4 1871: 6 1872: 2 1873: 22 1874: 4 1877: 6 1879: 5 1881: 6 1882: 3 1883: 1 1884: 17 1885: 4 1886: 12 1887: 6 1890: 3 1891: 3 1895: 5 1896: 6 1897: 4 1899: 2 1900: 7 1901: 3 1903: 8 1905: 49 1906: 10 1907: 20 1908: 5 1909: 23 1910: 21 1911: 5 1912: 3 1913: 10 1914: 6 1915: 8 1916: 9 1917: 20 1918: 7 1919: 19 1920: 7 1921: 3 1922: 14 1923: 15 1924: 8 1925: 110 1926: 13 1927: 2 1928: 12 1929: 19 1930: 51 1931: 31 1932: 15 1933: 151 1934: 57 1935: 47 1936: 45 1937: 57 1938: 57 1939: 102 1940: 65 1941: 134 1942: 91 1943: 44 1944: 38 1945: 12 1946: 25 1947: 22 1948: 35 1949: 73 1950: 7 1951: 40 1952: 55 1953: 72 1954: 36 1955: 38 1956: 18 1957: 21 1958: 26 1959: 86 1960: 46 1961: 18 1962: 67 1963: 33 1964: 92 1965: 132 1966: 66 1967: 57 1968: 77 1969: 97 1970: 171 1971: 96 1972: 103 1973: 51 1974: 54 1975: 49 1976: 55 1977: 243 1978: 88 1979: 280 1980: 129 1981: 112 1982: 91 1983: 66 1984: 52 1985: 61 1986: 191 1987: 206 1988: 212 1989: 237 1990: 169 1991: 175 1992: 362 1993: 177 1994: 133 1995: 182 1996: 379 1997: 334 1998: 393 1999: 729 2000: 923 2001: 871 2002: 1,747 2003: 487 2004: 461 2005: 336 2006: 263 2007: 549 2008: 979 2009: 1,346 2010: 1,512 2011: 2,169 2012: 1,115 2013: 1,097 2014: 1,243 2015: 1,866 2016: 4,677 2017: 1,966 2018: 2,511 2019: 4,165 2020: 1,542 2021: 1,714 2022: 1,543 2023: 1,598 2024: 1,518 2025: 1,442 2026: 600
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YearRecords
185317
18541
18576
18582
18612
18641
18662
18694
18704
18716
18722
187322
18744
18776
18795
18816
18823
18831
188417
18854
188612
18876
18903
18913
18955
18966
18974
18992
19007
19013
19038
190549
190610
190720
19085
190923
191021
19115
19123
191310
19146
19158
19169
191720
19187
191919
19207
19213
192214
192315
19248
1925110
192613
19272
192812
192919
193051
193131
193215
1933151
193457
193547
193645
193757
193857
1939102
194065
1941134
194291
194344
194438
194512
194625
194722
194835
194973
19507
195140
195255
195372
195436
195538
195618
195721
195826
195986
196046
196118
196267
196333
196492
1965132
196666
196757
196877
196997
1970171
197196
1972103
197351
197454
197549
197655
1977243
197888
1979280
1980129
1981112
198291
198366
198452
198561
1986191
1987206
1988212
1989237
1990169
1991175
1992362
1993177
1994133
1995182
1996379
1997334
1998393
1999729
2000923
2001871
20021,747
2003487
2004461
2005336
2006263
2007549
2008979
20091,346
20101,512
20112,169
20121,115
20131,097
20141,243
20151,866
20164,677
20171,966
20182,511
20194,165
20201,542
20211,714
20221,543
20231,598
20241,518
20251,442
2026600
United Kingdom · 9,812 Belgium · 7,153 Switzerland · 5,179 Netherlands · 3,702 Sweden · 3,351 Poland · 3,310 Germany · 3,016 France · 2,702 Denmark · 2,209 Russia · 1,154 Finland · 1,113 South Korea · 1,097 Norway · 989 United States · 888 Italy · 518 Spain · 500 Estonia · 367 Canada · 347 Austria · 317 Hungary · 310 China · 303 Luxembourg · 297 Japan · 254 Bulgaria · 121 Ireland · 83 Serbia · 76 Croatia · 74 Ukraine · 65 Belarus · 64 Isle of Man · 50 Czechia · 42 Slovakia · 38 Portugal · 26 Åland Islands · 17 Slovenia · 16 Iceland · 15 Latvia · 12 Romania · 9 Morocco · 8 Taiwan · 6 Montenegro · 6 Lithuania · 5 Mongolia · 5 Greece · 4 Mexico · 4 Guernsey · 3 Lebanon · 2 Unknown Region · 2 Pakistan · 2 Liechtenstein · 2 Jersey · 2 Bosnia & Herzegovina · 2 Albania · 1 Australia · 1 Azerbaijan · 1 Côte d’Ivoire · 1 Gibraltar · 1 North Korea · 1 Kazakhstan · 1 Moldova · 1 Madagascar · 1 Turkey · 1
Plantagen, Torp, Herrestad, Boh, Sweden 30/06/2026 · Rune Hixén · SLU Artdatabanken · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record
Russia 29/06/2026 · Валерия · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Russia 29/06/2026 · Валерия · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Tellusveien, Stavanger, Ro, Norway 29/06/2026 · Jan Alsvik · nbic · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record
France 28/06/2026 · Maxime Bodhuin · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record
France 28/06/2026 · agrouuu · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Russia 27/06/2026 · Валерия · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Slovakia 27/06/2026 · Female · Bakos Ádám · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
United Kingdom 27/06/2026 · Andrea Montechiarini · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Slovakia 27/06/2026 · Bakos Ádám · izeltlabuak.hu · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

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