Leptothorax acervorum

Leptothorax acervorum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Genus:	Leptothorax
Species:	L. acervorum
Binomial name
Leptothorax acervorum (Fabricius, 1793)
Subspecies
Leptothorax acervorum vandeli Bondroit, 1920
Synonyms
Formica acervorum Fabricius, 1793 Leptothorax acervorum kamtshaticus Ruzsky, 1920 Leptothorax acervorum nigrescens Ruzsky, 1905 Leptothorax acervorum superus Ruzsky, 1905 Mychothorax acervorum orientalis Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1928 Myrmica lacteipennis Zetterstedt, 1838

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.^[1] 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 the mesosoma segment of the body, and hair across its body. Following Bergmann's rule—unusually, for ectothermic animals—body size increases with latitude.