Species Detail - Scottish Wood Ant (Formica aquilonia) - 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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Formica aquilonia
Scottish Wood Ant
NHMSYS0000875949 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
foaqu
Yarrow, 1955
Insect - hymenopteran
Species
14
2
1
01/09/1894
17/03/1993
17 March (recorded in 1993)
31 October (recorded in 1987)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Ants of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Scottish Wood Ant (Formica aquilonia), accessed 05 March 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/367/Species/56448

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)