#3575 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Behaarde slankmier

Leptothorax acervorum

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Frank Ashwood · CC BY 4.0
2. © Philipp Hoenle · CC0
3. © Jonghyun Park · CC BY 4.0
4. © Hjalte Kjærby · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Wanroij, Netherlands:© Bartosz Fidor · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 3768 HL Soest, Netherlands:© Daniel Onneweer · CC BY 4.0
7. Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Netherlands:© Bartosz Fidor · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 7217 SB Harfsen, Netherlands:© Daniel Onneweer · CC BY 4.0
9. Reeverdijk 7, 7217 SB Eefde, Netherlands:© Bartosz Fidor · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 6561 KG Groesbeek, Holandia:© Bartosz Fidor · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Leptothorax acervorum is a small brown to yellow ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae. It was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793. L. acervorum is vastly distributed across the globe, most commonly found in the coniferous forests of Central, Western and Northern Europe. The morphology of L. acervorum is extremely similar to that of other Leptothorax ants. The difference arises in the two-toned appearance of L. acervorum , with the head and metasoma being darker than...

base stats

NL sightings 50iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 527iNaturalist observations

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).