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Black-backed meadow ant
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IUCN NT · Near threatened

Black-backed meadow ant

Formica pratensis

Formica pratensis, the black-backed meadow ant, is a species of European red wood ant in the family Formicidae.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 100996.