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Solenopsis fugax

Thief ant

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Solenopsis fugax (Latreille, 1798)

GBIF · view at source · updated on 03/07/2026

Common European Thief Ant

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Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Solenopsis

Solenopsis fugax

Wikidata · view at source · CC0 · updated on 03/07/2026

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species of insect

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(c) Bakos Ádám, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Bakos Ádám · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

no rights reserved, uploaded by Philipp Hoenle · CC0 · iNaturalist

(c) Jana Matějíčková, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Jana Matějíčková · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

Occurrences (GBIF) 42 countries · 5222 records

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Year	Records
1874	12
1894	2
1895	1
1902	1
1910	12
1917	2
1920	24
1921	3
1922	23
1924	5
1925	9
1926	9
1927	7
1928	1
1929	41
1931	1
1932	6
1934	16
1935	6
1936	26
1938	60
1939	126
1940	2
1941	28
1942	4
1944	6
1946	23
1947	2
1948	22
1949	5
1951	3
1952	1
1954	6
1955	2
1957	6
1960	3
1962	24
1963	2
1964	10
1966	4
1970	10
1972	9
1973	1
1974	4
1975	5
1976	3
1977	39
1978	2
1979	2
1981	3
1982	6
1983	15
1984	28
1985	11
1986	20
1987	12
1988	73
1989	4
1990	34
1991	24
1993	18
1994	6
1995	2
1996	44
1997	19
1998	22
1999	7
2000	16
2001	4
2002	18
2003	8
2004	21
2005	19
2006	68
2007	44
2008	42
2009	38
2010	62
2011	773
2012	91
2013	106
2014	815
2015	86
2016	81
2017	267
2018	95
2019	268
2020	134
2021	269
2022	193
2023	185
2024	234
2025	192
2026	39

Switzerland · 1,827 France · 1,685 Germany · 365 Italy · 281 Hungary · 188 Belgium · 157 Poland · 101 Austria · 101 Netherlands · 100 Ukraine · 67 Turkey · 43 Luxembourg · 41 Russia · 39 Czechia · 30 United Kingdom · 24 Bulgaria · 22 Greece · 22 Spain · 21 Sweden · 19 Serbia · 14 Slovakia · 13 Croatia · 12 Romania · 10 Syria · 6 Denmark · 5 Japan · 5 Lebanon · 3 Albania · 3 Montenegro · 2 Slovenia · 2 Tunisia · 2 Uzbekistan · 2 Afghanistan · 1 Finland · 1 Georgia · 1 South Korea · 1 Lithuania · 1 Morocco · 1 Monaco · 1 Moldova · 1 Turkmenistan · 1 Kosovo · 1

Ukraine 01/08/2026 · Male · andriy27 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Germany 29/07/2026 · Fabian A. Boetzl · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Ukraine 24/07/2026 · Natalia Matushkina · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Ukraine 24/07/2026 · Luksi_457 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record

Germany 23/07/2026 · Jonathan Neumann · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Ukraine 20/07/2026 · Oleg Yarmolenko · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Switzerland 18/07/2026 · Female · antpassionant · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Poland 15/07/2026 · pampelun · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Sint-Odiliënberg, Netherlands 08/07/2026 · Female · User 129581 · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

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