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Slender Ant

Leptothorax acervorum

637Records since 2000
JunePeak month
56Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb2
Mar20
Apr68
May96
Jun123
Jul111
Aug109
Sep45
Oct13
Nov1
Dec0

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland205
2Worcestershire England71
3Powys Wales41
4Aberdeenshire Scotland17
5Cornwall England16
6Moray Scotland12
7Surrey England9
8North Yorkshire England8
9Rotherham England7
10Aberdeen City Scotland7
11Armagh City, Banbridge and Craig Northern Ireland7
12East Ayrshire Scotland7
13Falkirk Scotland7
14Cambridgeshire England6
15Devon England6
263 England295 Scotland63 Wales9 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 56 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
637
Peak month
June
Counties with records
56
Scientific name
Leptothorax acervorum
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
621
Most recorded in
Highland, Worcestershire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Formicidae
Genus
Leptothorax
Name with authority
Leptothorax acervorum (Fabricius, 1793)
Described
1793
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q13395744 · GBIF 1323916