Lasius queen id

[Alexander]

I caught this queen a week ago in Portugal lisbon, and im like 99% sure its lasius, however i do not know the sub species, it canot be lasius niger because the queens legs are brownish yelow and her gaster is completely brown...
The queen its 1cm here is the pick
https://imgur.com/gallery/oU9McfR

[Camponotus]

Looks like Lasius Niger. I see you keel C. Vagus can you tell me how did you catch the queen because it's my dream spicies

[Alexander]

I caught 2 queens last year in a sunny afternoon 25*C whith litle to no wind,
This year i caught another two, a week and a half ago in very similar conditions 24*C no wind but in this case it had been rainning almost every day of that week and the day i caught them was the only day were it did not rain...
Catching Campanotus vagus is extremely easy because you always know when a nupcial flight has recently happend, that is because all the male drones, that for some reason were not able to mate whith queen alates, just sit around in walls, fences etc... basically the males just stay still in a verticall flat surface making them very easy to spot( the males are like 1cm and are black so they realy stand out against light colourd walls...
In additioni caught all Campanotus vagus queens in Lisbon Portugal, they are extremely comon in here, i have one wild colony just in my back garden!
I wish you the best of luck and be ready because you might have missed their flights already because they usualy fly in june!

[Camponotus]

Yea I missed two nuptial flights. I know for one colony of them and I was checking up on it and saw alates but never catched one

[Camponotus]

Don't they have another one in August?

[Camponotus]

Im so sad I waited whole winter for them to fly

[Good2Know15]

I caught this queen a week ago in Portugal lisbon, and im like 99% sure its lasius, however i do not know the sub species, it canot be lasius niger because the queens legs are brownish yelow and her gaster is completely brown...
The queen its 1cm here is the pick
https://imgur.com/gallery/oU9McfR

Hi there, that's definitely Lasius sp. What I think it could be is either Lasius Niger or Lasius Flavus as L.flavus have yellow legs and antennae. Some Lasius Niger queens I've caught tend to have brown/yellow-ish legs too...

Wish you luck with her!

[Alexander]

Ups nevermind the queen is lasius grandis...
But thanks for all of you who helped