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Formica rufa, one of the seventeen species of ants described by Linnaeus (1758) in his Systema Naturae
social insects, with more than 12,000 described species and many others awaiting description. In volume 1 of Systema Naturae, Linnaeus (1758) described seventeen species of ants (F. rufa pictured), all of which he placed in the single genus Formica. Within a few decades additional genera had been recognized, and this trend continued in the ensuing years, together with the development of a more complex hierarchical classification in which genera were apportioned among subfamilies and tribes. The ant species described by Linnaeus are now dispersed in eleven different genera, belonging to four subfamilies. (Full list...)
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