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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 · 31810 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
1905	7
1906	1
1907	2
1908	4
1909	16
1910	28
1911	3
1912	37
1913	4
1914	19
1915	12
1916	10
1917	5
1918	10
1919	20
1920	55
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	10
1935	9
1936	52
1937	69
1938	112
1939	521
1940	257
1941	151
1942	95
1943	46
1944	24
1945	67
1946	32
1947	71
1948	86
1949	26
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	65
1972	47
1973	26
1974	58
1975	72
1976	51
1977	204
1978	105
1979	76
1980	87
1981	65
1982	62
1983	62
1984	65
1985	88
1986	138
1987	316
1988	304
1989	297
1990	206
1991	98
1992	412
1993	246
1994	213
1995	87
1996	142
1997	234
1998	152
1999	396
2000	1,093
2001	583
2002	1,063
2003	348
2004	290
2005	325
2006	398
2007	463
2008	601
2009	565
2010	701
2011	841
2012	421
2013	3,078
2014	587
2015	682
2016	901
2017	737
2018	871
2019	1,268
2020	853
2021	752
2022	819
2023	963
2024	1,151
2025	1,213
2026	1,135

Belgium · 6,301 United Kingdom · 3,849 Canada · 3,552 Netherlands · 3,144 Switzerland · 2,883 Finland · 1,747 Sweden · 1,602 France · 1,295 Denmark · 1,269 Germany · 1,264 Norway · 869 Russia · 748 Poland · 673 United States · 558 Austria · 494 Hungary · 319 Italy · 221 Ireland · 219 Estonia · 216 Luxembourg · 177 Åland Islands · 79 Ukraine · 73 Spain · 64 Croatia · 41 Czechia · 28 Romania · 24 Serbia · 18 Lithuania · 13 Belarus · 12 Japan · 12 South Korea · 9 Slovakia · 9 Bulgaria · 7 Portugal · 4 Slovenia · 4 Iceland · 3 Andorra · 2 Bosnia & Herzegovina · 2 Latvia · 2 Isle of Man · 2 Indonesia · 1 Montenegro · 1

Tovetorps Forskningsstation, Srm, Sweden 11/10/2026 · User126257 · SLU Artdatabanken · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record

Kroktjenn, Risør, Ag, Norway 08/09/2026 · Arild Omberg · nbic · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

United Kingdom 30/08/2026 · Alex Worsey · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

Russia 30/08/2026 · svetlana_katana · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Russia 29/08/2026 · tetramorium_caespitum · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Russia 29/08/2026 · fynyx · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Russia 29/08/2026 · dlmnlbm · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Russia 29/08/2026 · tetramorium_caespitum · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Russia 28/08/2026 · Иван Евгеньевич · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Hungary 28/08/2026 · Female · Bölöny Bulcsú · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

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