Formica cunicularia Latreille, 1798
(an ant)

Formica cunicularia (an ant) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Formica cunicularia (an ant) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesFormica cunicularia (an ant)
GenusFormica (a genus of ants)
SubfamilyFORMICINAE (a subfamily of hymenopterans)
FamilyFORMICIDAE (ants)
SuperfamilyVESPOIDEA (wasps)
InfraorderAculeata (aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)
SuborderAPOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
OrderHYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Formica cunicularia (an ant)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Seiffert, B. 1997 Formica lusatica n. sp. - a sympatric sibling species of Formica cunicularia and Formica rufibarbis (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Gorlitz Vol 69(5): 3-16.

Formica cunicularia (an ant) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Kessock-Philip, R., Hurst, H., Rossington, S.R. & Holloway, G.J. 2004 Nesting ecology of Formica cunicularia Research Reports EN Report no 612.

Regional

Kvamme, T. & Colingwood, C.A. 2009 The first records in Norway of Myrmica specioides Bondroit, 1918 and Formica cunicularia Latreille, 1798 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) NJE Vol 56 (2): 65-68.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Formica cunicularia (an ant):

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