BioImages (UK) BIOTA (living things) Eukaryota (eukaryotes) ANIMALIA (animals) EUMETAZOA (metazoans) BILATERIA (bilaterally symmetrical animals) PROTOSTOMIA (protostomes) ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders) ARTHROPODA (arthropods) HEXAPODA (hexapods) INSECTA (insects) PTERYGOTA (winged insects) Neoptera (an infraclass of insects) Endopterygota (insects with wings developing internally) HYMENOPTERA (bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps) APOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids) Aculeata (aculeates: bees, wasps and ants) FORMICOIDEA (ants) FORMICIDAE (ants) Formica (a genus of ants) Formica rufa (Red Wood Ant) Record Formica rufa is also a member of: Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK) Formica rufa Linnaeus (Red Wood Ant) Date: 13 April 2008 OS grid ref: SO90 Lat/Lon: 51° 40' N, 2° 0' W Location: Vice County: East Gloucestershire, VC33, England Voucher: 13/04/2008[A] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) Stage or state: Imago Record Summary: dense aggregations on ground, perhaps where nest had been disturbed Identification Notes: Upstanding hair on underside of head, near the centre line. Contrary to Bolton and Collingwood (Workers key couplet 35) it has sparse tiny hairs between the facets of the eyes but photos on AntWeb show similar. Images standard photographs and close-ups macro-photographs << Click on a thumbnail

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