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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Ants (Formicoidea) » Ants (Formicidae) » Formicinae » Formicini » Wood ants, mound ants, & field ants (Formica) » fusca group (Formica fusca group) » Formica neorufibarbis
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Black and Red Ant - Formica neorufibarbis
Copyright © 2009 Matt Goff

Black and Red Ant - Formica neorufibarbis
Red Bluff Bay, Sitka County, Alaska, USA
June 7, 2009
I think this ant was between 1cm and 2cm. It is shown here eating from a piece of apple.

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Contributed by Matt Goff on 23 June, 2009 - 12:35pm
Last updated 5 February, 2011 - 10:18pm

Moved
Moved from Formica.
… Ben Coulter, 5 February, 2011 - 10:18pm login or register to post comments

F. neorufibarbis?
I'd say this is probably Formica neorufibarbis.
… Ben Coulter, 21 April, 2010 - 8:46am login or register to post comments

Formica species
I think Formica lugubris is the only one that occurs in Alaska.
… MrILoveTheAnts, 23 June, 2009 - 1:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Formica yes, lugubris no
I know this latter species very well, since this is by far the commonest of the thatching Ants in "my" Jura mountains. And this one worker looks completely different, if nothing else with its bright red legs and mainly black head. Were one palaearctic species to be said the most similar to it, then it would be the peat-bog dwelling F. uralensis.
I think quite a lot of Formica species do actually occur in Southern, coastal Alaska, at least from the fusca and the rufa group.
… Richard Vernier, 23 June, 2009 - 5:47pm login or register to post comments

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