@article {581, title = {New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Epirus, Greece}, journal = {Acta Entomologica Silesiana}, volume = {26}, year = {2018}, month = {02/2018}, pages = {1-22}, chapter = {1}, abstract = {

Seventy seven species of ants have been collected in Epirus (Northwestern Greece) in 2016, Messor cf. clivorum is new to Greece, 46 species are recorded from this region for the first time. At the moment 89 morphospecies are known from Epirus, 18 are identified only to complexes of cryptic taxa and their species status will be determined after future revisions.

}, keywords = {Ants, Epirus, faunistics, Greece, new regional records}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1169150}, author = {Borowiec, Lech and Salata, Sebastian} } @article {580, title = {Ants from Thessaly, Greece (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)}, journal = {Polish Journal of Entomology}, volume = {87}, year = {2018}, pages = {217-248}, chapter = {217}, abstract = {

A complete list of 107 ant species (including morphospecies not attributed to any known taxon) recorded from Thessaly, Greece, is presented. New records from 40 sampling localities explored during two field trips in 2012 and 2017, and also from literature data are included. Temnothorax sordidulus (M\ÜLLER, 1923) and Temnothorax tauricus (RUZSKY, 1902) are new to Greece; 38 species were recorded from Thessaly for the first time.

}, keywords = {Ants, faunistics, Greece, new national records, new regional records, Thessaly}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pjen-2018-0016}, author = {Borowiec, Lech and Salata, Sebastian} } @article {579, title = {Notes on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Euboea Island, Central Greece}, journal = {Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology}, volume = {27}, year = {2018}, month = {11/2018}, pages = {1-15}, chapter = {1}, abstract = {

Notes on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Euboea Island, Central Greece. Seventy-one ant species are recorded from the Euboea Island, Central Greece (Sterea Ellas), mostly based on material collected in 2018, including eight not attributed to any formally described taxon. Proceratium numidicum SantSchi, 1912 is new to Greece, 29 species or morphospecies are recorded from Sterea Ellas for the first time.

}, keywords = {Ants, Central Greece, Euboea, faunistics}, issn = {0867-1966}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1485235}, author = {Borowiec, Lech and Salata, Sebastian} } @article {578, title = {Notes on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Samos Island, Greece}, journal = {Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology}, volume = {27}, year = {2018}, month = {11/2018}, pages = {1-13}, chapter = {1}, abstract = {

Fifty and six ant species are recorded from the Samos Island (North Aegean) including seven not attributed to any formally described taxon. Aphaenogaster subcostata Viehmeyer, 1922, Temnothorax curtisetosus Salata \& Borowiec, 2015 and Temnothorax smyrnenis (Forel, 1911) are new to Greece and Europe; Crematogaster erectepilosa Salata \& Borowiec, 2015, Ponera coarctata (Latreill e, 1802), Temnothorax angustifrons Cs\ösz, Heinze \& Mik\ó, 2015 and Tetramorium hippocratis Agosti \& Collingwood, 1987 are new to the East Aegean Islands. Leptothorax bulgaricus ssp. smyrnenis Forel, 1911 is raised to the species rank as Temnothorax smyrnenis (Forel, 1911) new status.

}, keywords = {Ants, faunistics, Greece-Northern Aegean Islands, Samos, taxonomy}, issn = {0867-1966}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1481802}, author = {Borowiec, Lech and Salata, Sebastian} } @article {577, title = {Notes on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Zakynthos Island, Greece}, journal = {Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology}, volume = {27}, year = {2018}, month = {11/2018}, pages = {1-13}, chapter = {1}, abstract = {

Forty five ant species were recorded from the Zakynthos Island (Ionian Islands)in 2018, including seven not attributed to any formally described taxon. A comparison of ant fauna of Zakynthos with ant fauna of Samos islands is presented. Both islands have similar surface area (405.6 versus 476.4 km2) and are placed almost on the same latitude (37\°) but represent the most western and the most eastern fauna complexes in Greece; 78 species and morphospecies were recorded from both islands but only 23 species are common.

}, keywords = {Ants, East Aegean Islands, faunistics, Greece, Samos, taxonomy}, issn = {0867-1966}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1481794}, author = {Borowiec, Lech and Salata, Sebastian} } @article {576, title = {Description of Plagiolepis perperamus, a New Species from East-Mediterranean and Redescription of Plagiolepis pallescens Forel, 1889 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)}, journal = {Annales Zoologici (Warsaw)}, volume = {68}, year = {2018}, month = {11/2018}, pages = {809-824}, chapter = {809}, abstract = {

A taxon considered in past years as P. pallescens sensu Radchenko is described as a new species: Plagiolepis perperamus sp. nov. based on material from Eastern Mediterranean. Its morphological separation from P. schmitzii Forel, 1895, the second species characterized by dense gaster setosity, is supported by study on their environmental niches. Plagiolepis pallescens Forel, 1889 is redescribed based on type specimens and material collected from various localities spread within Balkans. Its taxonomical status is clarified and a definition of a \‘pallescens group\&$\#$39; is improved and supplemented. Plagiolepis maura var. taurica Santschi, 1920 and Plagiolepis maura var. ancyrensis Santschi, 1920 are synonymized with Plagiolepis pallescens Forel, 1889.

}, keywords = {Ecological niche modelling, Formicidae, Formicinae, Mediterranean Region, Plagiolepidini}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.4.005}, author = {Salata, Sebastian and Borowiec, Lech and Radchenko, Alexander G.} } @article {575, title = {Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Greek ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)}, journal = {Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology}, volume = {27}, year = {2018}, month = {21/2018}, pages = {1-51}, chapter = {1}, abstract = {

Cataglyphis cretica ( Forel, 1910) is raised to species rank and redescribed. The following synonymies are proposed: Lepisiota nigra ( Dalla torre, 1893) = Lepisiota splendens Karavaiev, 1912 syn. nov.; Camponotus boghossiani boghossiani stenoticus Forel, 1911 = Camponotus emery, 1915 syn. nov.; Camponotus oertzeni = Camponotus andrius Dalla torre Forel, 1889\  , 1893 syn. nov.,= Camponotus oertzeni kappariensis Dalla torre, 1893 syn. nov. Gynes of Aphaenogaster aktaci Temnothorax angustifrons Kiran \& tezcan, 2008, Cs{\H o}sz, Heinze \& Mik\ó, 2015, Temnothorax dessyi 1936), Temnothorax kemali (SantSchi, 1934), Temnothorax smyrnensis ( (menozzi, Forel, 1911) and Temnothorax solerii ( menozzi, 1936) are described for the first time. Aphaenogaster aktaci Kiran \& tezcan, 2008 and Temnothorax kemali (SantSchi, 1934) are new to Europe and Greece. New records for 10 species and an updated checklist of 315 species or morphospecies occurring in Greece is given.

}, issn = {0867-1966}, doi = {http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2199191}, author = {Salata, Sebastian and Borowiec, Lech} } @article {561, title = {Three Turano-European species of the Temnothorax interruptus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) demonstrated by quantitative morphology.}, journal = {Myrmecological News}, volume = {26}, year = {2018}, month = {2018-02-21}, pages = {101-119}, chapter = {101}, abstract = {

The ant genus Temnothorax is very diverse in the Palaearctic region. It consists of many cryptic species which are hard to discover with conventional toolkits of alpha taxonomy. However, the modern, quantitative morphological approaches have been improved, and their increased accuracy and taxonomic specificity allow taxonomists to discover cryptic biological diversity on a much finer scale. In this paper, we provide quantitative morphology-based evidence in support of our contention that the Turano-European Temnothorax interruptus (Schenck, 1852) is, in fact, a complex of three clearly separable lineages. Species hypotheses are developed through NC-PART clustering, a highly automated protocol using two algorithms, NC-clustering and Partitioning Based on Recursive Thresholding (PART). Our results are based on a large dataset generated from 19 continuous morphometric traits measured on a total of 165 workers from 66 nest samples. Classifications returned by the exploratory analyses are confirmed by cross-validated Linear Discriminant Analysis (LOOCV-LDA) with a 0.6\% error rate in 166 workers. Two known type series, Temnothorax interruptus (Schenck, 1852) and Leptothorax tuberum ssp. knipovitshi Karavaiev, 1916, which meet the criteria for this species complex, are nested in the same cluster, and each classification is supported with posterior p = 1.0. Therefore, Leptothorax tuberum ssp. knipovitshi is considered a junior synonym of T. interruptus. The two other morphological clusters are described as T. morea sp.n. and T. strymonensis sp.n. Syntopic occurrence has been found in only one case, between Temnothorax interruptus and T. strymonensis, and mixed colonies were not observed. Temnothorax interruptus has been identified as a Turano-European species, with distribution from Spain to the Caucasus but completely unknown in the Mediterranean region. The two broadly sympatric East Mediterranean species, T. morea and T. strymonensis, occur widely in the region from Croatia to Turkey.

}, author = {Cs{\H o}sz, S{\'a}ndor and Salata, Sebastian and Borowiec, Lech} } @article {558, title = {Taxonomic revision of the Cretan fauna of the genus Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with notes on the endemism of ant fauna of Crete.}, journal = {Annales Zoologici (Warsaw)}, volume = {68}, year = {2018}, month = {2018-12-06}, pages = {769-808}, chapter = {769}, abstract = {

We revise the Cretan species of the ant genus Temnothorax Mayr, 1861. Sixteen species are recognized, including seven new species which are possiblyendemic to Crete: T. crassistriatus sp. nov., T. daidalosi sp. nov., T. ikarosi sp. nov., T. incompletus sp. nov., T. minotaurosi sp. nov., T. proteii sp. nov., and T. variabilis sp. nov. A new synonymy is proposed, Temnothorax exilis (Emery, 1869) =Temnothorax specularis (Emery, 1916) syn. nov. An identification key to Cretan Temnothorax, based on worker caste is given. We provide a checklist of ant species described from Crete and discuss their status, distribution and endemism.

}, keywords = {checklist, Key, Mediterranean Subregion, Myrmicinae, new species, new synonymy}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.4.004}, url = {https://bioone.org/journals/annales-zoologici/volume-68/issue-4/00034541ANZ2018.68.4.004/Taxonomic-Revision-of-the-Cretan-Fauna-of-the-Genus-Temnothorax/10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.4.004.short}, author = {Salata, Sebastian and Borowiec, Lech and Trichas, Apostolos} } @article {533, title = {A new species of the ant genus Lasius Fabricius, 1804 from Crete (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)}, journal = {Zookeys}, volume = {789}, year = {2018}, month = {10 October 2018}, pages = {139{\textendash}159}, abstract = {

Lasius tapinomoides sp. n. from Crete, Greece, is described and illustrated. It belongs to L. turcicus complex and is well characterized by very small body, extremely shallow metanotal groove and presence of suberect to erect setae on the apical part of scape. New records of Cretan members of the genus Lasius Fabricius, 1804 are provided, their checklist is updated, and the key to their determination is presented.

}, keywords = {Endemic species, Greece, Lasius, Mediterranean Subregion}, doi = {doi: 10.3897/zookeys.789.27022}, author = {Salata, Sebastian and Borowiec, Lech} }