British Ant List

[tomorrownight]

Does anyone have a list of British ants and some kind of identification chart? How many British ants are there?

[Wood~Ant]

While a few British ant species are now very rare, and Formica rufibarbis is in danger of becoming extinct in England unless drastic measures are done to replace wild colonies, I have made 2 pages which may prove helpful to you

Follow these links below}

www.anthillwood.co.uk/britishants.htm

www.anthillwood.co.uk/myrmecology.htm

[tomorrownight]

just to help anyone who reads this thread, I have found this:

Ponerinae


Ponera coarctata
 Ponera coarctata
 Hypoponera punctatissima *
[edit]Dolichoderinae
 Tapinoma ambiguum
 Erratic ant, Tapinoma erraticum
 Tapinoma melanocephalum *
 Argentine ant, Linepithema humile *
[edit]Formicinae


Southern Wood Ant (Formica rufa)
 Formica sanguinea
 Formica exsecta
 Formica candida
 Formica lemani
 Formica fusca
 Formica rufibarbis
 Formica cunicularia
 Formica pratensis
 Formica rufa
 Formica lugubris
 Formica aquilonia
 Lasius fuliginosus
 Lasius sabularum
 Lasius meridionalis
 Lasius umbratus
 Yellow meadow ant, Lasius flavus
 Lasius mixtus
 Lasius brunneus
 Black garden ant, Lasius niger
 Lasius platythorax
 Lasius alienus
 Lasius psammophilus
 Paratrechina vividula *
 Paratrechina longicornis *
 Carpenter ants, Camponotus sp. *
[edit]Myrmicinae


Myrmica rubra
 Anergates atratulus
 Strongylognathus testaceus
 Solenopsis fugax
 Myrmecina graminicola
 Pavement ant, Tetramorium caespitum
 Stenamma debile
 Stenamma westwoodii
 Formicoxenus nitidulus
 Leptothorax acervorum
 Temnothorax nylanderi
 Temnothorax interruptus
 Leptothorax tuberum
 Myrmica karavajevi
 Myrmica sulcinodis
 Myrmica rubra
 Myrmica ruginodis
 Myrmica scabrinodis
 Myrmica sabuleti
 Myrmica lobicornis
 Myrmica schencki
 Pharaoh ant, Monomorium pharaonis *
 Monomorium salomonis *
 Crematogaster scutellaris *
 Pheidole megacephala *
 Tetramorium sp. (four species) *

Stared ones are introduced

[Wood~Ant]

Some of those listed with a * I think will not be found living wild in the UK, as they need higher temperatures than our British Winters offer.
Others are so rare that they may have only recently arrived here, but it is only the more common species which are regularly found