The Formica rufa group is a subgeneric group within the genus Formica, first proposed by William Morton Wheeler. This group contains the mound-building...

Formica rufa, also known as the red wood ant, southern wood ant, or horse ant, is a boreal member of the Formica rufa group of ants, and is the type species...

or building foundations. Mound-building, forest-dwelling Formica species groups such as F. rufa often have a considerable effect on their environments....

Formica rufibarbis is a European formicine ant of the Formica fusca group. In the classification by Auguste Forel, it is treated in the subgenus Serviformica...

Formica exsecta (the narrow-headed ant or excised wood ant) is a species of ant found from Western Europe to Asia. A rare formicine ant with a deeply excised...

a member of the Formica rufa species group. "Formica fossaceps Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 18 January 2018. "Formica fossaceps Report"...

Formica paralugubris is a species of ant. It is a member of the Formica rufa species group native to the Alps in the Palearctic realm. It is a cryptic...

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...

Competition between Formica cinerea Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and co-occurring ant species, with special reference to Formica rufa L.: direct and indirect...

Formica pratensis, the black-backed meadow ant, is a species of European red wood ant in the family Formicidae. Formica pratensis is divided into these...

live inside colonies of the European red wood ant Formica polyctena, or the red wood ant Formica rufa. Each larva produces a glandular secretion which...

straw from pine trees—and the formic acid that constitutes their venom. Formica rufa is one such ant, but there are others with similar characteristics. Forelius...

one or more queens. Workers look similar to other species of wood ants (genus Formica), but Formica lugubris workers can be identified by a fringe of...

the world of humans (in Paris), the other in the world of ants (in a Formica rufa colony in a park near Paris). The time is the early 21st century (the...

Group (1996). "Formica rufa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T8645A12924924. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T8645A12924924.en. "Formica obsoleta"...

There are three species of European red wood ant in the genus Formica: Formica polyctena Formica pratensis Formica rufa This page is an index of articles...

was a myrmecologist. In one study he calculated that a single nest of Formica rufa ants can destroy 50,000 insects a day. He also demonstrated that honeypot...

coexistence of ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and the wood ant Formica rufa : seasonal effects, interspecific variability and the evolution of a...

comparison to other social insects, with a focus on red wood ants ( Formica rufa group)". F1000Research. 2: 280. doi:10.12688/f1000research.2-280.v2. ISSN 2046-1402...

the eggs and larvae of a number of different ant species, notably Lasius niger and the Formica rufa group. These ants are usually found on heathland. However...

targets for aggression. In contrast to the other ant species, worker policing in the ant Formica fusca appears to incorporate nestmate recognition in...

woodpecker's diet, particularly in spring and summer. Wood ants of the genus Formica as well as members of Lasius and Myrmicinae such as Myrmica spp. predominate...

doi:10.5281/zenodo.25567. Emery, C. (1869). "Descrizione di una nuova formica italiana" (PDF). Annuario del Museo Zoologico della Reale Università de...

Carl Linnaeus (1758) described seventeen species of ants, all of which he placed in the single genus Formica. Within a few decades additional genera had...

Marikovsky, P. I. (June 1962). "On some features of behavior of the antsFormica rufa L. infected with fungous disease". Insectes Sociaux. 9 (2): 173–179....

common. This species is one of a group of very similar typical treecreeper species, all placed in the single genus Certhia. Eight species are currently...

the remote Glaism na Marbh valley are a stronghold for Formica lugubris Zett., a wood ant species that is rare both in the Killarney woods and in Ireland...

Le Guillou, 1842 Formica inequalis Lowne, 1865 Formica minuta Lowne, 1865 List of ant genera List of ant subfamilies Introduced species to Australia that...

Redtenbacher, a Myrmecophilous Coccinellid, to aggression by Wood Ants (Formica rufa Group). Journal of Insect Behavior, 11:6, 889-904. Takizawa, T. & H. Yasuda...

chronic bee paralysis virus was reported for the first time in Formica rufa and another species of ant, Camponotus vagus. Acute bee paralysis virus is considered...