List of locales in Britain where ant species have become locally extinct

There are many locations in Great Britain where rare ants have been historically present, but for which no modern records exist. These are listed by species:

Table of contents

1 Formica pratensis 2 Formica exsecta 3 Formica sanguinea 4 Formica rufibarbis 5 Tapinoma erraticum 6 Ponera coarctata

Formica pratensis

• Holnest (Dale)
• Porlock (Dale)
• Exmouth (Dale)
• Stoke Wood (nr. Exeter) (Parfitt)
• Bloxworth Heath (O. P.-Cambridge)
• Bournemouth (F. Smith)
• Corbridge (Donisthorpe)
• Rannoch (Foxcroft, Donisthorpe, and others)
• Nethy Bridge (King, Donisthorpe, Crawley, &ct.)

N.b. The last recorded colony of this species was at Morden near Bloxworth in the early 1990s.

Also see Formica pratensis.

Formica exsecta

• Land's End (Isabell)
• Lyme Regis (Nevison)
• Poole (F. Smith)
• Parkhurst forest, Isle of Wight (Donisthorpe &ct.)
• Bournemouth (F. Smith)
• Boscombe (Farren-White)
• Ringwood (Farren-White)
• Parkstone (Saunders)
• New forest (Bradley, Donisthorpe, et al.)
• Bewdley (Blatch)
• Braemar (Donisthorpe)
• Boat of Garten (Beare)

Also see Formica exsecta.

Formica sanguinea

• Westerham (Harwood)
• Brasted (Harwood)

Also see Formica sanguinea

Formica rufibarbis

• Reigate (Frisby)
• Weybridge (Donisthorpe)

Also see Formica rufibarbis.

Tapinoma erraticum

• Parkhurst forest, Isle of Wight (E. A. Bulter)
• Weybridge (Donisthorpe)
• Dunfries (Service)

Also see Tapinoma erraticum.

Ponera coarctata

• Sandown (Dale)
• Ventor (Dale)

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Also see British ants, Rare ants of the British Isles and List of the common names of British ant species.

See list of ant genera (alphabetical) for an alphabetical compendium of wordwide ant genera.