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Solenopsis fugax

Thief ant

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Solenopsis fugax (Latreille, 1798)

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

Common European Thief Ant

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Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Solenopsis

Solenopsis fugax

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

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species of insect

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(c) Bakos Ádám, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Bakos Ádám · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

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

(c) Jana Matějíčková, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Jana Matějíčková · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Raoul Gerend, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Raoul Gerend · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

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

Occurrences (GBIF) 43 countries · 5089 records

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Occurrences by year

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Year	Records
1874	12
1894	2
1895	1
1902	1
1910	12
1917	1
1920	24
1921	3
1922	23
1924	5
1925	7
1926	9
1927	7
1928	1
1929	41
1931	1
1932	6
1934	31
1935	6
1936	34
1938	60
1939	128
1940	2
1941	27
1942	4
1944	6
1946	23
1947	2
1948	16
1949	5
1951	3
1952	1
1954	6
1955	2
1957	6
1960	3
1962	24
1963	2
1964	10
1966	4
1970	10
1972	9
1973	1
1974	4
1975	5
1976	3
1977	39
1978	2
1979	2
1981	3
1982	6
1983	8
1984	26
1985	11
1986	15
1987	12
1988	62
1989	4
1990	28
1991	24
1993	11
1994	6
1995	2
1996	32
1997	15
1998	20
1999	6
2000	13
2001	4
2002	18
2003	8
2004	20
2005	19
2006	61
2007	44
2008	45
2009	38
2010	58
2011	741
2012	85
2013	101
2014	815
2015	85
2016	81
2017	265
2018	87
2019	173
2020	131
2021	262
2022	193
2023	185
2024	240
2025	195
2026	110

France · 1,691 Switzerland · 1,616 Germany · 387 Italy · 274 Hungary · 204 Belgium · 157 Poland · 103 Netherlands · 100 Austria · 99 Ukraine · 77 Russia · 55 Türkiye · 47 Luxembourg · 41 Czechia · 32 United Kingdom · 26 Greece · 23 Bulgaria · 22 Spain · 21 Sweden · 19 Serbia · 14 Romania · 14 Croatia · 13 Slovakia · 13 Syria · 6 Denmark · 5 Japan · 5 Albania · 3 Lebanon · 3 Montenegro · 2 Slovenia · 2 Tunisia · 2 Uzbekistan · 2 Brazil · 1 Kosovo · 1 Turkmenistan · 1 Moldova · 1 Monaco · 1 Morocco · 1 Lithuania · 1 South Korea · 1 Georgia · 1 Finland · 1 Afghanistan · 1

Germany 03/10/2026 · David Grunicke · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Italy 02/10/2026 · Andrea Montechiarini · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Italy 30/09/2026 · Nicholas Spoto · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Russia 29/09/2026 · tuy80937 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Germany 28/09/2026 · Yannik Tausend · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Poland 27/09/2026 · ig777 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Hungary 26/09/2026 · Mátyás Ötvös · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Türkiye 25/09/2026 · Mustafa Arisli · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

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