Southern wood ant  (Formica rufa)

Facts

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Insecta
Order Hymenoptera
Family Formicidae
Genus Formica (1)
Size Length of workers: 10 mm (2)
Length of queens: 12 mm (2)
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Status

Classified as Lower Risk-near threatened (LR/nt) in the IUCN Red List (3) and classified in Great Britain as Local (4).