Abundance: 0.10 to 33.90% (median 0.53%)

Latitudinal range: 20.6° to 61.9°

Habitats: boreal forest/taiga (3), desert/xeric shrubland (1), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (4), temperate coniferous forest (2), temperate savanna (1), tropical/subtropical coniferous forest (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (1)

Found in 13 samples

Belgium: Campine region

Canada: Houston, Meyomoot (leave block), Meyomoot (15 years since clear cutting)

China: Mount Demula and Bomi Valley

Croatia: Mount Medvednica plot 1

Czech Republic: Cerna Studnice Hill (pitfall traps), Jetřichovice

Finland: Hyytiälä (control, 1989), Seitseminen National Park (area A, plot 1)

India: Sarthal (pitfall trap)

Mexico: La Cañada

United States: Vernon Hills (sagebrush)

See also Formica, Formica accreta, Formica aquilonia, Formica argentea, Formica aserva, Formica candida, Formica cunicularia, Formica dakotensis, Formica fukaii, Formica gagates, Formica gagatoides, Formica hewitti, Formica japonica, Formica lasiodes, Formica lemani, Formica limata, Formica lugubris, Formica manni, Formica moki, Formica montana, Formica neogagates, Formica neorufibarbis, Formica nitidiventris, Formica obscuripes, Formica obscuriventris, Formica obtusopilosa, Formica pallidifulva, Formica perpilosa, Formica pratensis, Formica rubicunda, Formica rufa, Formica rufibarbis, Formica sanguinea, Formica sp., Formica sp. II, Formica subnuda, Formica subrufa, Formica subsericea, Formica transkaucasica, Formica truncorum, Formica trunctorum