Welcome to Ants of Greece

This is a site about the myrmecofauna of Greece. So far 290 species and subspecies have been described in Greece making it the most species-rich country of Europe. The site is maintained by the Myrmecological Study Group at the Department of Biology and the Zoological Museum (ZMUA) of the University of Athens.

Petiole scale of Camponotus vagus male.jpg

Male's head of Formica cinerea .jpg

Queen of Formica nigricans.jpg

Lateral alitrunk and pedicel of Leptothorax angustulus.jpg

Recent Pages

  • Important links and materials used

    Christos Georgiadis - 2017-11-09

    General Myrmecology

  • Latin Abbreviations

    Christos Georgiadis - 2015-10-15

    aff. - affinis -- having affinity with but not identical to

  • About us

    Christos Georgiadis - 2014-10-14

    This site is maintained by the Myrmecology Lab at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and uses data available from the Zoological Museum of the University of Athens (ZMUA).

Recently Added Literature

Recently Added Taxon Descriptions

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith