Formica Linnaeus, 1758
(a genus of ants)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Formica cunicularia
an ant
(Click to open)
 		Species 16 images 1 ident. refs
Formica fusca
Negro Ant, Dusky Ant
(Click to open)
 		Species 5 images
Formica lugubris
Northern Wood Ant, Hairy Wood Ant
Species 1 ident. refs
Formica rufa
Red Wood Ant, Southern Wood Ant
(Click to open) (Click to open) (Click to open)
 		Species 33 images 1 ident. refs
Formica rufibarbis
Red Barbed Ant
Species 1 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
GenusFormica (a genus of ants)
SubfamilyFORMICINAE (a subfamily of hymenopterans)
FamilyFORMICIDAE (ants)
SuperfamilyVESPOIDEA (wasps)
InfraorderAculeata (aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)
SuborderAPOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
OrderHYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Seiffert, B. 1991 The phenotypes of the Formica rufa complex in East Germany Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Gorlitz Vol 65(1): 1-27.

Workers

Hackston, M. 2016 Genus Formica workers, key to British species

Formica (a genus of ants) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Formica (a genus of ants)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 65 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Formica (a genus of ants)
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)