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Myrmica rubra

European fire ant

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Myrmica rubra (Linnaeus, 1758)

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

Red Ant

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Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Myrmica

Myrmica rubra

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

About the species

type species of the genus Myrmica

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(c) Marie Lou Legrand, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Michał Górski, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Michał Górski · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Even Dankowicz, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Even Dankowicz · CC BY · iNaturalist

(c) Loïs Rancilhac, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Loïs Rancilhac · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

no rights reserved, uploaded by Philipp Hoenle · CC0 · iNaturalist

(c) Stephen Luk, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Stephen Luk · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Benjamin Burgunder, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Benjamin Burgunder · CC BY · iNaturalist

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

Occurrences (GBIF) 42 countries · 31752 records

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Occurrences by year

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Year	Records
1800	4
1841	1
1845	2
1846	3
1847	1
1849	1
1853	18
1855	2
1857	4
1858	1
1866	2
1867	11
1869	4
1870	5
1872	2
1873	6
1876	1
1877	3
1884	5
1889	2
1891	4
1894	2
1895	1
1896	7
1897	1
1898	3
1899	1
1900	6
1901	5
1902	6
1903	4
1906	1
1907	2
1908	4
1909	16
1910	28
1911	3
1912	36
1913	4
1914	20
1915	12
1916	10
1917	5
1918	10
1919	20
1920	54
1921	6
1922	49
1923	16
1924	20
1925	6
1926	4
1927	3
1928	11
1929	29
1930	38
1931	10
1932	28
1933	123
1934	2
1935	6
1936	51
1937	59
1938	113
1939	521
1940	257
1941	151
1942	97
1943	46
1944	20
1945	65
1946	32
1947	71
1948	90
1949	30
1950	23
1951	59
1952	28
1953	8
1954	77
1955	39
1956	67
1957	69
1958	67
1959	18
1960	69
1961	35
1962	72
1963	23
1964	150
1965	94
1966	117
1967	91
1968	43
1969	92
1970	46
1971	66
1972	47
1973	26
1974	66
1975	73
1976	56
1977	206
1978	105
1979	77
1980	87
1981	63
1982	61
1983	64
1984	65
1985	87
1986	136
1987	321
1988	310
1989	305
1990	210
1991	91
1992	423
1993	251
1994	232
1995	94
1996	143
1997	239
1998	154
1999	411
2000	1,127
2001	585
2002	1,060
2003	348
2004	293
2005	332
2006	404
2007	464
2008	603
2009	589
2010	749
2011	904
2012	490
2013	3,085
2014	606
2015	737
2016	900
2017	734
2018	888
2019	1,367
2020	862
2021	750
2022	815
2023	961
2024	1,103
2025	1,157
2026	659

Belgium · 6,294 United Kingdom · 3,946 Canada · 3,509 Switzerland · 3,218 Netherlands · 3,048 Finland · 1,753 Sweden · 1,569 France · 1,287 Denmark · 1,267 Germany · 1,238 Norway · 856 Poland · 653 Russia · 570 United States · 537 Austria · 491 Hungary · 286 Italy · 243 Estonia · 216 Ireland · 216 Luxembourg · 177 Åland Islands · 79 Ukraine · 70 Spain · 59 Croatia · 40 Czechia · 28 Serbia · 14 Belarus · 12 Japan · 12 Lithuania · 12 South Korea · 9 Slovakia · 9 Romania · 7 Bulgaria · 7 Portugal · 4 Slovenia · 4 Iceland · 3 Andorra · 2 Bosnia & Herzegovina · 2 Latvia · 2 Indonesia · 1 Isle of Man · 1 Montenegro · 1

Sjöholmen S, Vikaholm Teleborg, Sm, Sweden 01/07/2026 · Tomas Lundqvist · SLU Artdatabanken · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record

Grubbänget,östra,Umeå, Vb, Sweden 01/07/2026 · Ralf Norberg · SLU Artdatabanken · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record

Madlamarkveien, Stavanger, Ro, Norway 30/06/2026 · Jan Alsvik · nbic · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

Reistadbakkene, Lillehammer, In, Norway 27/06/2026 · Hans Andreas Sagstuen · nbic · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

Canada 27/06/2026 · Andrew Sebastian · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

Canada 27/06/2026 · bnickle · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

Canada 26/06/2026 · PlantRebecca · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Källtorp, Hjälmsätter, Nrk, Sweden 26/06/2026 · Michael Andersson · SLU Artdatabanken · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record

Canada 25/06/2026 · nuthatchnicole · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

Poland 25/06/2026 · dr Maciej Buchalik · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

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