Formica rufibarbis Fabricius, 1793
(Red Barbed Ant)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Formica rufibarbis (Red Barbed Ant)
Genus	Formica (a genus of ants)
Subfamily	FORMICINAE (a subfamily of hymenopterans)
Family	FORMICIDAE (ants)
Superfamily	VESPOIDEA (wasps)
Infraorder	Aculeata (aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)
Suborder	APOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
Order	HYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

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

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Seiffert, B.	1997	Formica lusatica n. sp. - a sympatric sibling species of Formica cunicularia and Formica rufibarbis (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)	Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Gorlitz Vol 69(5): 3-16.

Formica rufibarbis (Red Barbed Ant) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Formica
(a genus of ants)

FORMICIDAE
(ants)

VESPOIDEA
(wasps)

Aculeata
(aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)

APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)

HYMENOPTERA
(ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Formica rufibarbis (Red Barbed Ant)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Formica rufibarbis (Red Barbed Ant)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Formica rufibarbis is also a member of:

Identification Works

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