Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Hexapoda Subfamily Myrmicinae Higher classification Myrmica | Phylum Arthropoda Family Formicidae Tribe Myrmicini Rank Species | |
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Similar Myrmica, Ant, Myrmica rugulosa, Myrmica lobicornis, Myrmica sulcinodis | ||
Myrmica gallienii is an ant species distributed from Central Europe to West Siberia. Also found in Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania. It lives in wet grasslands and swamps, often in saline land. It builds shallow nests with a soil mound in moist habitats but deep nests in sandy areas. Colonies are relatively large with thousands of individuals.
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