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Formica rufa

Red wood ant

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Formica rufa Linnaeus, 1761

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

Red Wood Ant

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Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Formica

Formica rufa

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

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species of insect

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Occurrences (GBIF) 41 countries · 29055 records GBIF · updated on 05/07/2026 Maximize Minimize
Georeferenced points from GBIF. Click the map to use the scroll wheel; click a point to view the record.
Occurrences by year
1809: 1 1829: 1 1834: 1 1848: 1 1853: 2 1858: 2 1866: 4 1868: 4 1869: 2 1870: 3 1874: 2 1875: 1 1877: 5 1878: 7 1879: 5 1884: 3 1887: 4 1888: 2 1889: 5 1891: 1 1892: 1 1893: 2 1894: 2 1897: 3 1900: 3 1901: 2 1902: 6 1904: 14 1905: 2 1906: 2 1908: 9 1909: 8 1910: 10 1911: 13 1912: 13 1913: 5 1914: 3 1915: 4 1916: 8 1918: 1 1919: 2 1920: 41 1921: 13 1922: 15 1923: 21 1924: 36 1925: 14 1926: 12 1927: 19 1928: 5 1929: 10 1930: 5 1931: 7 1932: 7 1933: 58 1934: 10 1935: 27 1936: 18 1937: 11 1938: 35 1939: 139 1940: 67 1941: 48 1942: 189 1943: 14 1944: 44 1945: 11 1946: 56 1947: 37 1948: 23 1949: 70 1950: 1 1951: 56 1952: 104 1953: 27 1954: 79 1955: 76 1956: 75 1957: 80 1958: 273 1959: 50 1960: 201 1961: 473 1962: 257 1963: 142 1964: 67 1965: 105 1966: 19 1967: 42 1968: 74 1969: 113 1970: 130 1971: 79 1972: 54 1973: 29 1974: 144 1975: 47 1976: 794 1977: 363 1978: 410 1979: 114 1980: 387 1981: 196 1982: 454 1983: 328 1984: 75 1985: 137 1986: 58 1987: 342 1988: 215 1989: 140 1990: 90 1991: 57 1992: 113 1993: 221 1994: 71 1995: 56 1996: 61 1997: 54 1998: 85 1999: 94 2000: 634 2001: 104 2002: 252 2003: 229 2004: 195 2005: 300 2006: 155 2007: 919 2008: 541 2009: 625 2010: 770 2011: 517 2012: 596 2013: 608 2014: 570 2015: 1,183 2016: 1,376 2017: 1,009 2018: 925 2019: 1,421 2020: 1,287 2021: 925 2022: 991 2023: 939 2024: 900 2025: 1,285 2026: 543
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19285
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194067
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1980387
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2013608
2014570
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20161,376
20171,009
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20201,287
2021925
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Switzerland · 9,317 Germany · 3,618 Sweden · 3,460 United Kingdom · 2,886 Denmark · 2,165 Netherlands · 1,636 Russia · 1,280 France · 1,154 Belgium · 1,121 Norway · 903 Finland · 265 Austria · 182 Canada · 142 Estonia · 122 Luxembourg · 113 Italy · 103 Ukraine · 102 United States · 102 Poland · 71 Czechia · 68 Hungary · 63 Spain · 44 Serbia · 30 Lithuania · 17 Slovakia · 14 Bulgaria · 13 Åland Islands · 11 Liechtenstein · 11 South Korea · 8 Turkey · 7 Slovenia · 5 Greece · 4 Portugal · 4 Belarus · 3 Latvia · 3 Côte d’Ivoire · 2 Croatia · 2 Andorra · 1 Armenia · 1 Kenya · 1 Romania · 1
Nordfrøyveien 570, Ervika (Frøya), Frøya, Tø, Norway 02/07/2026 · Frank Robert Lyngvær · nbic · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record
Hästhagen, Byviken, Obbola, Obbola skärgård, Vb, Sweden 02/07/2026 · Kerstin Årdahl · SLU Artdatabanken · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record
Russia 29/06/2026 · formikeeper · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Russia 26/06/2026 · Kate Smith · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Lyngnesmyra, Sviland, Sandnes, Ro, Norway 26/06/2026 · Svein-Ivar Eliassen · nbic · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record
Slovakia 25/06/2026 · kida_team · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Selkävaara, Nb, Sweden 24/06/2026 · Marie Karlsson · SLU Artdatabanken · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record
Öringe 417 grusväg, Hl, Sweden 22/06/2026 · Olivia Mårtensson · SLU Artdatabanken · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record
Skarpåkersvägen 32 Kramfors, Ång, Sweden 20/06/2026 · Kurt Holmqvist · SLU Artdatabanken · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record
Bruket, Skinnskatteberg, Vstm, Sweden 20/06/2026 · Per Appeltofft · SLU Artdatabanken · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record

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