Species Detail - Red Ant (Myrmica rubra) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Ants of Ireland".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Myrmica rubra
Red Ant
Myrmica laevinodis, Myrmica laevinodis [Genus inferred], Myrmica longiscapus [Genus inferred]
N/A
myrub
(Linnaeus, 1758)
insect - hymenopteran
Species
95
54
41
01/01/1895
29/08/2024
15 February (recorded in 2024)
19 November (recorded in 2021)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Ants of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Red Ant (Myrmica rubra), accessed 22 February 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/367/Species/52753>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)