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Formica fusca (silky ant)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Formica fusca, a common black colored ant found in Europe, is a palaearctic ant with a range extending from Portugal in the west to Japan in the east and from Italy in the south to Fennoscandia in the north. F. fusca nests are usually found in rotten tree stumps or under stones in clearcut areas and along woodland borders and hedgerows. F. fusca feeds on small insects, aphid honeydew and extra floral nectaries. Alate (winged) forms are produced in June/July and nuptial flights are in July/August.
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Infraspecies

Formica fusca alpicola
Formica fusca fusca
Formica fusca fuscolemani
Formica fusca hyrcana
Formica fusca maura
Formica fusca tombeuri
Formica fusca var. fusca
Formica fusca var. gagates
Formica fusca var. glauca

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Volucella pellucens (White-banded Drone Fly)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Formica sanguinea (Blood-red Ant)1

Predators

Providers

Mutual (symbiont) 
Aphis acetosae[1]
Aphis brohmeri[1]
Aphis idaei (Small Raspberry Aphid)[1]
Aphis sambuci (Elder Aphid)[1]
Aphis urticata[1]

Consumers

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Ecology of Commanster
♦ 2Predator-Prey Database for the family Asilidae (Hexapoda: Diptera) Prepared by Dr. Robert Lavigne, Professor Emeritus, University of Wyoming, USA and Dr. Jason Londt (Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg)
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 5Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0