@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 {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 {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} }