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Formica fusca

Silky ant

Genus: Formica

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Formica fusca

AntCat · view at source · updated on 19/09/2026

Author: Linnaeus, 1758 species Valid name

Formicidae

Formica fusca Linnaeus, 1758

GBIF · view at source · updated on 03/07/2026

Dusky Ant

SPECIES Valid name

Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Formica

Formica fusca

Wikidata · view at source · CC0 · updated on 03/07/2026

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species of insect

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(c) Jake Nitta, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Jake Nitta · CC BY · iNaturalist

(c) Margarita Lankford, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Margarita Lankford · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Sean Daniels, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Sean Daniels · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

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no rights reserved, uploaded by Jesse Rorabaugh · CC0 · iNaturalist

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Occurrences (GBIF) 57 countries · 28268 records

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Year	Records
1800	6
1826	1
1850	4
1852	1
1853	10
1854	4
1855	11
1856	2
1858	4
1866	6
1868	3
1869	7
1872	2
1873	24
1874	2
1875	3
1877	1
1878	1
1880	3
1881	6
1882	2
1883	7
1884	1
1885	1
1886	3
1887	2
1888	1
1889	2
1891	19
1892	2
1893	3
1894	3
1895	4
1896	8
1897	8
1898	1
1899	1
1900	2
1901	13
1902	8
1903	2
1904	7
1905	23
1906	7
1907	13
1908	17
1909	5
1910	32
1911	2
1912	29
1913	4
1914	4
1915	15
1916	4
1917	40
1918	4
1919	9
1920	114
1921	22
1922	37
1923	6
1924	22
1925	7
1926	11
1927	6
1928	15
1929	16
1930	37
1931	22
1932	38
1933	24
1934	46
1935	57
1936	62
1937	41
1938	112
1939	175
1940	47
1941	77
1942	86
1943	82
1944	80
1945	105
1946	132
1947	176
1948	49
1949	105
1950	41
1951	48
1952	129
1953	52
1954	99
1955	73
1956	76
1957	95
1958	78
1959	98
1960	66
1961	36
1962	65
1963	40
1964	80
1965	80
1966	31
1967	105
1968	81
1969	127
1970	127
1971	93
1972	38
1973	108
1974	63
1975	38
1976	38
1977	112
1978	47
1979	103
1980	40
1981	99
1982	114
1983	54
1984	54
1985	42
1986	159
1987	129
1988	231
1989	101
1990	79
1991	70
1992	147
1993	248
1994	129
1995	87
1996	130
1997	611
1998	185
1999	200
2000	325
2001	355
2002	439
2003	245
2004	438
2005	215
2006	205
2007	388
2008	608
2009	898
2010	908
2011	867
2012	668
2013	669
2014	685
2015	632
2016	778
2017	818
2018	766
2019	868
2020	1,223
2021	1,124
2022	879
2023	1,239
2024	1,222
2025	1,464
2026	1,297

Netherlands · 3,958 Switzerland · 3,469 Belgium · 3,441 United Kingdom · 3,005 Sweden · 2,511 United States · 2,202 France · 1,689 Denmark · 1,461 Norway · 1,344 Germany · 958 Russia · 824 Finland · 802 Canada · 466 Austria · 332 Estonia · 293 Hungary · 264 Luxembourg · 223 Spain · 176 Poland · 151 Italy · 111 Czechia · 82 Ireland · 77 South Korea · 74 Greece · 58 Serbia · 34 Ukraine · 29 Isle of Man · 27 Romania · 23 Montenegro · 20 Croatia · 18 Japan · 16 Guernsey · 13 Åland Islands · 13 Slovakia · 12 Türkiye · 12 Bulgaria · 11 Portugal · 8 Jersey · 6 Slovenia · 6 China · 6 Andorra · 5 Indonesia · 4 Latvia · 4 Tajikistan · 4 Kazakhstan · 4 Lithuania · 3 Mexico · 3 St. Pierre & Miquelon · 3 Albania · 2 Morocco · 2 Kyrgyzstan · 2 Belarus · 2 India · 1 Azerbaijan · 1 North Macedonia · 1 Afghanistan · 1 Kosovo · 1

Hungary 03/10/2026 · Female · András Zámbó · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Skogsgatan 83, Aneby, Sm, Sweden 30/09/2026 · User12859 · SLU Artdatabanken · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record

Russia 20/09/2026 · tetramorium_caespitum · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Netherlands 20/09/2026 · Marleen Schouten · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Ukraine 20/09/2026 · Oleg Yarmolenko · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Hungary 19/09/2026 · Female · Bakos Ádám · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

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