Abundance: 0.01 to 95.75% (median 9.99%)

Latitudinal range: 19.7° to 61.9°

Habitats: Mediterranean woodland (2), boreal forest/taiga (3), desert/xeric shrubland (2), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (16), temperate coniferous forest (3), temperate savanna (3), tropical/subtropical coniferous forest (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (1)

Found in 31 samples

Belgium: Campine region

Canada: Grasslands National Park (native), 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: Hyytiålå (control, 1989), Seitseminen National Park (area A, plot 1)

India: Sarthal (pitfall trap)

Italy: Castelporziano Natural Reserve cultivated fields (May), Castelporziano Natural Reserve cultivated fields (July)

Mexico: El Oro de Hidalgo (mixed forest), La Cañada

Portugal: Mirandela

South Korea: Gwangneung Forest (2003), Gwangneung Forest (2012)

Spain: Benifallet

United States: New York City medians, Reservoir Canyon, Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge (native), Bonham Creek (L1, pitfall traps), Vernon Hills (cheatgrass-dominated), Vernon Hills (sagebrush), McLaughlin Homestake Mining Co. (non-serpentine chaparral/pitfall), Tombigbee National Forest (Site 1), George Washington National Forest, Monongahela National Forest, Piscataquis dense spruce-fir stands (1977)

See also Formica accreta, Formica aquilonia, Formica argentea, Formica aserva, Formica candida, Formica cunicularia, Formica dakotensis, Formica fukaii, Formica fusca, 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