Formica sanguinea

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 4

publication ID	8127
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6295964
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treatment provided by	Donat
scientific name	Formica sanguinea
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5. Formica sanguinea View in CoL LSID . Pl. III. fig. 10. B.M.

Formica sanguinea, Latr. LSID Hist. Nat. Fourm. 150. pl. 5. f. 29 [[worker]].

Jurine, Hym. 272.

St. Farg. Hym. i. 203. 4 [[male]] [[queen]] [[worker]].

Foerst. Hym. Stud. Form. 20. 6.

Schenck, Beschr. Nass. Ameis. 36.

Smith, Brit. Form. 101. 2,

Mayr. Form. Austr. 64. 12; Ungar. Ameis. 10. 12.

Nyl. Form. Fr. et d'Alger. 62. 16.

Formica dominula LSID , Nyl. Adno. Mon. Form. Bor. 905. 6.

Hab. Britain; France; Germany; Austria; Hungary; Italy; Finland; Arctic America.

This is the only species of the genus Formica LSID which plunders the nests of other species of their young brood in the pupa state, which they bring up as slaves to their own community. The species is not uncommon in Hampshire, where it attacks the nests of F. fusca LSID and F. cunicularia LSID ; in its nests have also been observed numerous individuals of the yellow ant, F. flava LSID ; it does not raise nests similar to the wood-ant, but belongs to the division of mining ants.