wood ant
(Formica spp.)
Overview • Description • Distribution • Taxonomy
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Description |
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Worker: ⅛″ to 5 ⁄16″ (4 to 8 mm) Male: 3 ⁄16″ to ½″ (5 to 13 mm) Queen: 3 ⁄16″ to ½″ (5 to 13 mm) |
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Taxonomy |
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Order |
Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies) | ||
Suborder |
Apocrita (narrow-waisted wasps, ants, and bees) | ||
Infraorder |
Aculeata (ants, bees, and stinging wasps) | ||
Superfamily |
Formicoidea (ants) | ||
Family |
Formicidae (ants) | ||
Subfamily |
Formicinae | ||
Tribe |
Formicini | ||
Subordinate Taxa |
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Allegheny mound ant (Formica exsectoides) blood-red ant (Formica sanguinea) fusca-group field ants (Formica fusca group) fuzzy mound ant (Formica lasioides) icy mound ant (Formica glacialis) light bronze mound ant (Formica subaenescens) New World mound ant (Formica neogagates) northern red wood ant (Formica obscuriventris) pale mound ant (Formica pallidefulva) pitted mound ant (Formica fossaceps) podzol mound ant (Formica podzolica) prairie mound ant (Formica montana) red-bearded mound ant (Formica neorufibarbis) ruddy slave-making mound ant (Formica rubicunda) silky ant (Formica fusca group) silvery field ant (Formica argentea) somewhat silky mound ant (Formica subsericea) Ulke’s ant (Formica ulkei) western thatching ant (Formica obscuripes) |
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Common Names |
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wood ant field ant mound ant thatching ant |
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| The ant is tending to aphids on Fireweed. | _04.jpg "wood ant (Formica sp.)") |
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| Bill Reynolds 7/14/2003 |
The ant is tending to aphids on Fireweed. |
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