Taxonomic history
[Misspelled as pusillus by Wheeler, 1915i PDF: 142; misspelled as pumilis by Wilson, 1955a PDF: 56.].[Unresolved junior secondary homonym of †Lasius pumilus (Heer, 1849).].Dlussky, 2011 PDF: 215 (q.).Combination in Lasius (Lasius): Wilson, 1955a PDF: 56.Status as species: Scudder, 1891 PDF: 714; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 190; André, 1895b PDF: 82 (in list); Handlirsch, 1907: 860; Wheeler, 1915i PDF: 122; Wilson, 1955a PDF: 56 (redescription); Burnham, 1979 PDF: 114; Keilbach, 1982: 279; Bolton, 1995b: 225; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009 PDF: 1030; Dlussky, 2011 PDF: 215 (redescription); Perkovsky, 2016 10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014 PDF: 114.