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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)
Formica rufa
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Formica rufa Linnaeus (Red Wood Ant)

Sets of Photographs

These relate to individual finds ("biological records") of the organism.

Taxon Summary # images # photos # macrophotos Date Vice-county Country
Formica rufa Imago 13 4 9 13 Apr 2008 East Gloucestershire England
Formica rufa 4 4 9 Aug 1970 East Sussex England
Formica rufa Male imago 1 1 14 Jun 1997 Berks England
Formica rufa Imago 1 1 14 Jun 1997 Berks England

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Seiffert, B., 1991 The phenotypes of the Formica rufa complex in East Germany

Formica rufa may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 HYMENOPTERA
(bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)		 Aculeata
(aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)		 FORMICOIDEA
(ants)		 FORMICIDAE
(ants)		 Formica
(a genus of ants)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 17 feeding and other relationships of Formica rufa (Red Wood Ant)

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