Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Formica sanguinea Latreille, 1798 PDF: 37 (w.) FRANCE. Palearctic. Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: France: Tulle (
P.A. Latreille). Primary type depository: perhaps MNHN, MRSN.
AntCat AntWiki HOL Taxonomic history
Status as species:
Latreille, 1802a PDF: 150;
Jurine, 1807 PDF: 272;
Latreille, 1817a: 98;
Lamarck, 1817 PDF: 96;
Stephens, 1829b: 357;
Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835 PDF: 203;
Foerster, 1850a: 20;
Smith, 1851 PDF: 2;
Schenck, 1852 PDF: 36;
Mayr, 1855 PDF: 336 (redescription);
Smith, 1855a PDF: 101;
Nylander, 1856b PDF: 62;
Gredler, 1858 PDF: 8;
Smith, 1858a PDF: 4, 52;
Mayr, 1861 PDF: 46 (in key);
Meinert, 1861 PDF: 313;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 420;
Roger, 1863b PDF: 13;
Smith, 1871c: 1;
Dours, 1873 PDF: 165;
Forel, 1874 PDF: 52 (in key);
André, 1874b: 183 (in key);
Emery, 1878: 48;
Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 451;
Saunders, 1880 PDF: 205;
André, 1882c PDF: 180 (in key);
White, 1884 PDF: 251;
Provancher, 1887: 232 (in key);
Cresson, 1887 PDF: 257;
Nasonov, 1889: 16;
Lameere, 1892: 62;
Forel, 1892j PDF: 307;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 211;
Forel, 1894c PDF: 403;
Wasmann, 1894: 163;
Ruzsky, 1896 PDF: 69;
Saunders, 1896 PDF: 21;
Wheeler, 1901c PDF: 523;
Wheeler, 1901e PDF: 702;
Ruzsky, 1902d PDF: 11;
Ruzsky, 1902e PDF: 16;
Ruzsky, 1903c PDF: 206;
Bingham, 1903 PDF: 366;
Ruzsky, 1905b: 411;
Wheeler, 1906g PDF: 15;
Wheeler, 1906h PDF: 322;
Wasmann, 1906 PDF: 111 (in key);
Forel, 1906b PDF: 85;
Emery, 1909b PDF: 182;
Bondroit, 1910 PDF: 483;
Wheeler, 1913i PDF: 401 (redescription);
Stitz, 1914 PDF: 90;
Ruzsky, 1915a PDF: 428;
Ruzsky, 1915b: 14;
Forel, 1915d: 61 (in key);
Donisthorpe, 1915f PDF: 280;
Emery, 1916a PDF: 257;
Ruzsky, 1916: 5;
Wheeler, 1917a PDF: 533;
Escherich, 1917: 334 (in key);
Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 55;
Menozzi, 1918 PDF: 88;
Nadig, 1918 PDF: 341;
Santschi, 1919e PDF: 247;
Kulmatycki, 1922 PDF: 83;
Soudek, 1922b PDF: 78;
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1923b PDF: 246;
Müller, 1923b PDF: 145;
Vashkevich, 1924b PDF: 148;
Emery, 1925d PDF: 259;
Lomnicki, 1925a PDF: 13 (in key);
Ruzsky, 1925a PDF: 287;
Santschi, 1925g PDF: 351;
Schkaff, 1925b PDF: 276;
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1926c PDF: 95;
Karavaiev, 1926e PDF: 195;
Stärcke, 1926a PDF: 146 (in key);
Donisthorpe, 1927a PDF: 8;
Donisthorpe, 1927c: 323;
Karavaiev, 1927d: 284 (in key);
Karavaiev, 1927e PDF: 344;
Lomnicki, 1928 PDF: 9;
Karavaiev, 1930b PDF: 148;
Karavaiev, 1931c PDF: 116;
Karavaiev, 1931e PDF: 216;
Soudek, 1931 PDF: 15;
Gösswald, 1932 PDF: 38;
Arnol'di, 1933a: 603 (in key);
Grandi, 1935 PDF: 104;
Karavaiev, 1935b PDF: 110;
Karavaiev, 1936: 258 (redescription);
Ruzsky, 1936 PDF: 93;
Stitz, 1939: 316;
Menozzi, 1939a PDF: 321;
Holgersen, 1940 PDF: 186;
Novák & Sadil, 1941 PDF: 104 (in key);
Röszler, 1942a PDF: 61;
Holgersen, 1943c PDF: 175 (in key);
Holgersen, 1944a PDF: 182;
Ruzsky, 1946 PDF: 69;
Van Boven, 1947b PDF: 187 (in key);
Forsslund, 1947 PDF: 73;
Creighton, 1950a PDF: 469;
Consani & Zangheri, 1952 PDF: 45;
Wellenius, 1955 PDF: 16;
Wilson & Brown, 1955 PDF: 116;
Ceballos, 1956: 320;
Collingwood, 1961a PDF: 68;
Baroni Urbani, 1964b PDF: 63;
Baroni Urbani, 1964c PDF: 169;
Dlussky, 1965a PDF: 16;
Dlussky, 1967a PDF: 97;
Bernard, 1967a PDF: 326 (redescription);
Kutter, 1968b PDF: 61;
Kutter, 1968c: 206;
Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969 PDF: 90;
Pisarski, 1969a PDF: 234;
Pisarski, 1969b: 313;
Dlussky & Pisarski, 1970 PDF: 89;
Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 228;
Collingwood, 1971 PDF: 167;
Dlussky & Pisarski, 1971 PDF: 189 (redescription);
Banert & Pisarski, 1972 PDF: 356;
Bolton & Collingwood, 1975: 6 (in key);
Pisarski, 1975: 50;
Tarbinsky, 1976 PDF: 186 (redescription);
Collingwood, 1976a PDF: 305;
Aktaç, 1977 PDF: 127;
Van Boven, 1977 PDF: 158;
Kutter, 1977c: 289;
Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 553 (in key);
Báez & Ortega, 1978: 189;
Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 93 (in key);
Collingwood, 1979 PDF: 137;
Kupyanskaya, 1980 PDF: 99;
Onoyama, 1980a PDF: 200;
Collingwood, 1981 PDF: 27;
Barquín, 1981: 478;
Pisarski & Krzysztofiak, 1981 PDF: 164;
Kupyanskaya, 1986b PDF: 98;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 285 (in key);
Nilsson & Douwes, 1987: 74;
Wu, 1990 PDF: 4 (in key);
Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 191;
Morisita et al., 1991: 34;
Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 280;
Arakelian, 1994 PDF: 100;
Radchenko, 1994b: 113 (in key);
Douwes, 1995: 96;
Bolton, 1995b: 203;
Poldi et al., 1995: 8;
Wu & Wang, 1995a: 140;
Tang et al., 1995: 107;
Espadaler, 1997g PDF: 28;
Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 25 (in key);
Gallé et al., 1998: 217;
Tinaut & Martínez-Ibañez, 1998d PDF: 36 (in key);
Collingwood & Heatwole, 2002 PDF: 14;
Chang & He, 2002a PDF: 51 (in key);
Czechowski et al., 2002 PDF: 88;
Imai et al., 2003 PDF: 59;
Karaman & Karaman, 2003 PDF: 51;
Radchenko, 2005b PDF: 163;
Csosz & Markó, 2005 PDF: 231;
Karaman & Karaman, 2005 PDF: 61;
Bračko, 2006 PDF: 148;
Markó et al., 2006 PDF: 68;
Petrov, 2006 PDF: 111 (in key);
Schultz et al., 2006 PDF: 205;
Bračko, 2007 PDF: 20;
Pfeiffer et al., 2007 PDF: 4;
Radchenko, 2007 PDF: 37;
Seifert, 2007: 320;
Werner & Wiezik, 2007 PDF: 144;
Zryanin & Zryanina, 2007 PDF: 233;
Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008 PDF: 134;
Paknia et al., 2008 PDF: 154;
Borowiec et al., 2009 PDF: 378;
Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 483;
Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010 PDF: 55;
Boer, 2010: 28;
Csosz et al., 2011 PDF: 59;
Karaman, 2011b PDF: 84;
Legakis, 2011 PDF: 36;
Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 496;
Czechowski et al., 2012: 225;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012 PDF: 32;
Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 11;
Borowiec & Salata, 2013 PDF: 353;
Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 79;
Bračko et al., 2014 PDF: 19;
Bharti et al., 2016 PDF: 27;
Lebas et al., 2016: 180;
Radchenko, 2016: 292;
Steiner et al., 2017: 9;
Salata & Borowiec, 2018c 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF: 45;
Seifert, 2018: 332;
Werner et al., 2018 PDF: 6;
Bračko, 2019 10.23885/181433262019151-165175 PDF: 170;
Rasheed et al., 2019 10.13102/sociobiology.v66i3.4330 PDF: 430;
Arcos et al., 2022 10.13102/sociobiology.v69i2.7623 PDF: 10;
Borowiec & Salata, 2022 PDF: 164 (redescription).
Senior synonym of
Formica dominula:
Smith, 1851 PDF: 115;
Schenck, 1852 PDF: 36;
Smith, 1855a PDF: 102;
Mayr, 1855 PDF: 337;
Nylander, 1856b PDF: 62;
Smith, 1858a PDF: 4;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 420;
Roger, 1863b PDF: 13;
Smith, 1871c: 1;
Dours, 1873 PDF: 165;
André, 1874c: 202 (in list);
Forel, 1874 PDF: 98 (in list);
Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 451;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 211;
Forel, 1894c PDF: 403;
Ruzsky, 1905b: 411;
Wheeler, 1913i PDF: 401;
Donisthorpe, 1915f PDF: 280;
Emery, 1925d PDF: 259;
Donisthorpe, 1927c: 323;
Karavaiev, 1936: 258;
Bolton, 1995b: 203;
Imai et al., 2003 PDF: 59;
Radchenko, 2007 PDF: 37;
Radchenko, 2016: 292.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Canary Islands Americas: Canada,
United States Asia: Afghanistan,
Armenia,
China,
Georgia,
India,
Iran,
Japan,
Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Mongolia,
North Korea,
Pakistan,
South Korea,
Turkey,
Uzbekistan Europe: Albania,
Andorra,
Austria,
Balearic Islands,
Belarus,
Belgium,
Bulgaria,
Croatia,
Czech Republic,
Denmark,
Estonia,
Finland,
France,
Germany,
Gibraltar,
Greece,
Hungary,
Italy,
Latvia,
Lithuania,
Luxembourg,
Macedonia,
Moldova,
Netherlands,
Norway,
Poland,
Portugal,
Romania,
Russia,
Slovakia,
Slovenia,
Spain,
Sweden,
Switzerland,
Ukraine,
United Kingdom Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Indomalaya,
Nearctic,
Palearctic
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
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Formica sanguinea |
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Paknia, O., Radchenko, A. & Alipanah, H., 2008, A preliminary checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Iran., Myrmecologische Nachrichten 11, pp. 151-159: 155, (download) |
155 |
21820
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Formica sanguinea |
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Förster, A., 1850, Hymenopterologische Studien. 1. Formicariae., Aachen: Unknown Publisher: 20-21, (download) |
20-21 |
8138
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Formica sanguinea |
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Smith, F., 1851, List of the specimens of British animals in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. - Hymenoptera Aculeata., London: British Museum: 8-9, (download) |
8-9 |
8200
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Formica sanguinea |
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Forel, A., 1894, Les formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part IV. Adjonction aux genres Camponotus, Mayr., et Polyrhachis, Shuck., Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 8, pp. 396-420: 403, (download) |
403 |
3951
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Formica sanguinea |
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Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8, pp. 1-174: 137-138, (download) |
137-138 |
6175
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Formica sanguinea |
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Smith, F., 1851, List of the specimens of British animals in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. - Hymenoptera Aculeata., London: British Museum: 2, (download) |
2 |
8200
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Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 418 times found in Unknown, 163 times found in heathlands, 33 times found in dry grassland, 31 times found in Forest, 18 times found in Anthropogenic, 16 times found in Rocks (rocky-calcareous grasslands), 13 times found in dunes & inland dunes, 12 times found in bogs & fenns, 11 times found in mixed montane forest, 8 times found in mixed canadian forest, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 14 times log stage 4, 5 times ground foragers, 5 times under boulder, 4 times Nest under stone, 4 times log stage 5, 4 times Under stone, 3 times nido, 3 times under log, 3 times log stage 3, 2 times ground foraging, 2 times thatched log, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 224 times Pitfall trap, 198 times Manual catch, 23 times search, 16 times Hand, 4 times Malaise trap, 2 times Color trap, 1 times Window trap, 1 times Yellow color trap, 1 times by hand, 1 times insect net, 1 times Pyramid trap, ...
Elevations: collected from 107 - 3536 meters, 1806 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1866-04-06 00:00:00.0 and 2022-07-19 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: syntype of Formica sanguinea flavorubra: casent0911095; syntype of Formica sanguinea fusciceps: casent0905692; syntype of Formica sanguinea strennua: casent0912255; syntype of Formica sanguinea borea: casent0912254; type of Formica sanguinea: casent0903273
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Mexico
United States
India
Madagascar
Canada
Brazil
China
Greece
Spain
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