Formica rufa
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| phylum | Arthropoda | Formica rufa (the Red wood ant) is a large, mound-building ant species in the family Formicidae. It is native to Eurasia, ranging from Scandinavia to Anatolia and Lake Baikal. Colonies are polygynous, often numbering hundreds of thousands of workers, and are noted for aggressively defending their large, conspicuous, dome-shaped nests by spraying formic acid.
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| Class | Insecta | |
| order | Hymenoptera | |
| family | Formicidae | |
| subfamily | Formicinae | |
| genus | Formica | |
| species | F. rufa |
