#3624 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
Mediterranean Acrobat Ant
🇳🇱 Rode schorpioenmier ·Crematogaster scutellaris
📍 Wäinönkuja
📍 Provincia di Ancona, Italia
📍 Algimia de Alfara, Valencia, España
📍 Taza, Taza - Al Hoceima - Taounate, Morocco
📍 Great Britain, Birmingham, England, GB
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © MatiasG · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Gianfrs · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Gianni Del Bufalo bygdb · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Norbert VERNEAU · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Vitaliy · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Wäinönkuja:© ttso · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Provincia di Ancona, Italia:© Gianni Del Bufalo bygdb · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Algimia de Alfara, Valencia, España:© sernat · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Taza, Taza - Al Hoceima - Taounate, Morocco:© Jonghyun Park · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Great Britain, Birmingham, England, GB:© fantasticmrdan · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Crematogaster scutellaris is a species of ant belonging to the family Formicidae, subfamily Myrmicinae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 3 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 12,551 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier in 1792 (234 years ago).
- Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.
fact sheet
- English
- Mediterranean Acrobat Ant
- Nederlands
- Rode schorpioenmier
- scientific name
- Crematogaster scutellaris
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Formicidae
- in NL
- introduced
- sightings in NL
- 3
- sightings in Europe
- 11,718
- sightings worldwide
- 12,551
- GBIF records in NL
- 144
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1792 by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier
relatives· Formicidae
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Lasius fuliginosus
👀 582 in NL
#3527 📷 10Grauwzwarte renmier
Formica fusca
👀 207 in NL
#3528 📷 10Blood-red Field Ant
🇳🇱 Bloedrode roofmier
Formica sanguinea
👀 206 in NL
#3531 📷 10Southern Wood Ant
🇳🇱 Behaarde rode bosmier
Formica rufa
NT 👀 183 in NL
#3545 📷 10Brown Tree Ant
🇳🇱 Boommier
Lasius brunneus
👀 119 in NL
#3547 📷 8Black Garden Ant
🇳🇱 Wegmier
Lasius niger
👀 105 in NL
#3549 📷 10Bosslankmier
Temnothorax nylanderi
👀 100 in NL
#3555 📷 8Black-backed meadow ant
🇳🇱 Zwartrugbosmier
Formica pratensis
NT 👀 84 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 342899, Wikidata Q2717158, GBIF 1325120, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.