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Woodland Red Ant

Myrmica ruginodis

4,639Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
99Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan8
Feb15
Mar89
Apr268
May608
Jun794
Jul992
Aug1,241
Sep301
Oct75
Nov10
Dec8

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland723
2Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland297
3Aberdeenshire Scotland224
4East Ayrshire Scotland214
5North Yorkshire England212
6Argyll and Bute Scotland167
7Cambridgeshire England166
8Essex England131
9Worcestershire England131
10Orkney Islands Scotland118
11Norfolk England117
12Powys Wales84
13Surrey England81
14Gwynedd Wales80
15Cornwall England76
1,922 England1,829 Scotland370 Wales44 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 99 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,639
Peak month
August
Counties with records
99
Scientific name
Myrmica ruginodis
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,175
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Formicidae
Genus
Myrmica
Name with authority
Myrmica ruginodis Nylander, 1846
Described
1846
Contributing datasets
49

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q847103 · GBIF 1318848