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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
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Formica (a genus of ants)

Sets of Photographs

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

Taxon Summary # images # photos Date Vice-county Country
Formica? Imago 1 1 18 May 2007 West Norfolk England

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #macrophotos #refs
Species Formica cunicularia Latreille (an ant)     1
Species Formica fusca Linnaeus (Negro Ant)   5  
Species Formica lugubris Zetterstedt (Northern Wood Ant, Hairy Wood Ant)     2
Species Formica rufa Linnaeus (Red Wood Ant) 8 11 1
Species Formica rufibarbis Fabricius (an ant)     1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

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

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 4 general literature references to Formica (a genus of ants)

Formica 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)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 66 feeding and other relationships of Formica (a genus of ants)

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