Formica sanguinea: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Formica
- Species
- Formica sanguinea
- Scientific Name
- Formica sanguinea
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Formica sanguinea
Formica sanguinea, or blood-red ant, is a species of facultative slave-maker ant in the genus Formica characterized by the ability to secrete formic acid. It ranges from Central and Northern Europe through Russia to Japan, China, the Korean Peninsula, Africa and also the United States. This species is coloured red and black with workers up to 7 mm long.
A colony of F. sanguinea can live either as a free colony or as a social parasite of Formica species, most commonly Formica fusca, Formica japonica, Formica hayashi and Formica rufibarbis.
...Formica sanguinea in languages:
- Bokmål
- rovmaur
- Czech
- mravenec loupeživý
- Danish
- Blodrød rovmyre
- Dutch
- Bloedrode roofmier
- English
- Blood-red Field Ant
- English
- Blood-red Slave-making Ant
- English
- Blood-red Ant
- English
- Bloody Mound Ant
- Finnish
- verimuurahainen
- German
- Blutrote Raubameise
- Japanese
- アカヤマアリ
- Korean
- 분개미
- Polish
- Zbójnica krwista
- Russian
- Кроваво-красный муравей-рабовладелец
- Swedish
- blodröd rövarmyra
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