Formica rufa

• Main Author: Smith, F.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: British Museum 1858
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Formicidae; Formica; Formica rufa; lapp
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6295956; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/F4F6B3B26CBDD3713753D6B96BD9C1D2

1. Formica rufa, Pl. III. figs. 1, 7, 8, 9. B.M. Formica rufa, Linn. Faun. Suec. no. 1721; Syst. Nat. i. 962.3. Scop. Ins. Cam. 313. 836. Fabr. Syst. Ent. 391. 4; Ent. Syst. ii. 351. 8; Syst. Piez. 398. 11. Schrank, Ins. Austr. no. 834. Rossi, Faun. Etrus. ii. 113. 836. Don. Brit. Ins. xiv. 76. t. 496 [[queen]]. Oliv. Encycl. Meth. vi. 493. 14. Latr. Hist. Nat. Fourm. 143. pl. 5. f. 28. A. B. [[male]] [[queen]] [[worker]]. Dumer. Consid. gen. 211. t. 32. f. 2 [[queen]]. Jurine, Hym. 272. St. Farg. Hym. i. 201. 3. Curtis, Brit. Ent. xvi. t. 752 [[male]] [[queen]] [[worker]]. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 449. 5. Brulle, Exped. Sc. de Moree, iii. 327. 727. Nyl. Form. Fr. et d'Alger. 60. 14; Adno. Mon. Form. Bor. 902. 5. Foerst, Hym. Stud. Form. 13. 3. Schenck, Beschr. Nass. Ameis. 25. Smith, Brit. Form, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iii. n. s. 100.1. Mayr. Form. Austr. 56. 9; Ungar. Ameis. 9. 9. Formica dorsata, Panz. Faun. Germ. 54. 1 [[queen]]. Formica obsoleta, Zett. Ins. Lapp. 449. 5 [[queen]] [[worker]]. Formica lugubris, Zett. idem, 6 [[male]]. Formica polyctena, Foerst. Hym. Stud. Form. 15. 4. Schenck, Beschr. Nass. Ameis. 28. Formica truncicola, Foerst. Hym. Stud. Form. 21. Formica piniphila, Schenck, Beschr. Nass. Ameis. 28. Hab. Europe. This species is popularly known as the Wood-ant, from the circumstance of its forming the heaped-up nests of leaves, sticks and similar materials, usually in woods, but colonies are frequently met with in other situations; indeed it sometimes takes possession of the decaying trunk of a tree, and has been observed in a wall built of turf; but woods are its common habitat. The nests of this species are the habitat of several Coleoptera, which probably resort to them as suitable situations in which to undergo their metamorphoses; of such, Cetonia aurata and Clythra quadripunctata are examples: besides these, there are also found in the nests a number of species belonging to the family Staphylinidse, and as these are carried into the nests by the ants themselves, there can he little doubt, as ...