Bulgaria

Bulgaria
Location
Region	Europe
Subregion	Eastern Europe
BioRegion	Palaearctic Region
Diversity
Subfamilies	6
Genera	39
Endemic Genera	0
% Endemic Genera	0.0%
Species/Subspecies	189
Endemic Species	1
% Endemic Species	0.5%
Introduced Species	0

The following valid species and subspecies of ants are known to occur in Bulgaria. Unidentified and undescribed species will be added to this list as identifications are verified and taxonomic revisions are published. This species list is based upon the effort of many ant collectors as well as myrmecologists who have published on the taxonomy of Bulgaria ants. Those who have specimen records that expand this list are encouraged to submit this information in the discussion section of the Bulgaria Ants web page. Please advise if any corrections are warranted.

Aphaenogaster

• Aphaenogaster epirotes (Emery,, 1895)
• Aphaenogaster festae Emery, 1915
• Aphaenogaster illyrica Bračko, Lapeva-Gjonova, Salata, Borowiec & Polak, 2019
• Aphaenogaster subterranea (Latreille, 1798)
• Aphaenogaster subterraneoides Emery, 1881

Bothriomyrmex

• Bothriomyrmex communista Santschi, 1919
• Bothriomyrmex corsicus Santschi, 1923
• Bothriomyrmex meridionalis (Roger, 1863)

Camponotus

• Camponotus aegaeus Emery, 1915
• Camponotus aethiops (Latreille, 1798)
• Camponotus atricolor (Nylander, 1849)
• Camponotus dalmaticus (Nylander, 1849)
• Camponotus fallax (Nylander, 1856)
• Camponotus gestroi Emery, 1878
• Camponotus herculeanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Camponotus ionius Emery, 1920 (known from a single locality)
• Camponotus lateralis (Olivier, 1792)
• Camponotus ligniperda (Latreille, 1802)
• Camponotus piceus (Leach, 1825)
• Camponotus samius Forel, 1889
• Camponotus tergestinus Müller, 1921 (known from a single locality)
• Camponotus universitatis Forel, 1890
• Camponotus vagus (Scopoli, 1763)

Cardiocondyla

• Cardiocondyla bulgarica Forel, 1892
• Cardiocondyla stambuloffii Forel, 1892

Cataglyphis

• Cataglyphis aenescens (Nylander, 1849)
• Cataglyphis livida (André, 1881)
• Cataglyphis nodus (Brulle, 1833)

Colobopsis

• Colobopsis truncata (Spinola, 1808)

Crematogaster

• Crematogaster gordani Karaman, 2008
• Crematogaster ionia Forel, 1911
• Crematogaster lorteti Forel, 1910
• Crematogaster schmidti (Mayr, 1853)
• Crematogaster sordidula (Nylander, 1849)

Cryptopone

• Cryptopone ochracea (Mayr, 1855)

Dolichoderus

• Dolichoderus quadripunctatus (Linnaeus, 1771)

Formica

• Formica aquilonia Yarrow, 1955
• Formica cinerea Mayr, 1853
• Formica clara Forel, 1886
• Formica cunicularia Latreille, 1798
• Formica exsecta Nylander, 1846
• Formica fusca Linnaeus, 1758
• Formica gagates Latreille, 1798
• Formica glauca Ruzsky, 1895
• Formica lemani Bondroit, 1917
• Formica lugubris Zetterstedt, 1838
• Formica picea Nylander, 1846
• Formica polyctena Foerster, 1850
• Formica pratensis Retzius, 1783
• Formica pressilabris Nylander, 1846
• Formica rufa Linnaeus, 1761
• Formica rufibarbis Fabricius, 1793
• Formica sanguinea Latreille, 1798
• Formica truncorum Fabricius, 1804

Formicoxenus

• Formicoxenus nitidulus (Nylander, 1846)

Harpagoxenus

• Harpagoxenus sublaevis (Nylander, 1849)

Hypoponera

• Hypoponera eduardi (Forel, 1894) (known from a single locality)
• Hypoponera punctatissima (Roger, 1859)

Lasius

• Lasius alienus (Foerster, 1850)
• Lasius balcanicus Seifert, 1988
• Lasius bicornis (Foerster, 1850)
• Lasius bombycina Seifert & Galkowski, 2016
• Lasius brunneus (Latreille, 1798)
• Lasius carniolicus Mayr, 1861
• Lasius citrinus Emery, 1922
• Lasius distinguendus (Emery, 1916)
• Lasius emarginatus (Olivier, 1792)
• Lasius flavus (Fabricius, 1782)
• Lasius fuliginosus (Latreille, 1798)
• Messor hellenius Agosti & Collingwood, 1987
• Lasius jensi Seifert, 1982
• Messor mcarthuri Steiner et al., 2018
• Lasius meridionalis (Bondroit, 1920)
• Lasius mixtus (Nylander, 1846)
• Lasius myops Forel, 1894
• Lasius neglectus Van Loon, Boomsma & Andrasfalvy, 1990
• Lasius niger (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Lasius nitidigaster Seifert, 1996
• Lasius paralienus Seifert, 1992
• Lasius platythorax Seifert, 1991
• Lasius psammophilus Seifert, 1992
• Lasius reginae Faber, 1967
• Lasius umbratus (Nylander, 1846)

Lepisiota

• Lepisiota frauenfeldi (Mar, 1855)
• Lepisiota nigra (Dalla Torre, 1893) (needs confirmation (Lapeva-Gjonova & Antonova, 2022))

Leptothorax

• Leptothorax acervorum (Fabricius, 1793)
• Leptothorax muscorum (Nylander, 1846)

Linepithema

• Linepithema humile (Mayr, 1868)

Liometopum

• Liometopum microcephalum (Panzer, 1798)

Manica

• Manica rubida (Latreille, 1802)

Messor

• Messor atanassovii Atanassov, 1982
• Messor barbarus (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Messor caducus (Motschoulsky, 1839)
• Messor capitatus (Latreille, 1798)
• Messor ibericus Santschi, 1931
• Messor oertzeni Forel, 1910
• Messor ponticus Steiner et al., 2018
• Messor structor (Latreille, 1798)
• Messor wasmanni Krausse, 1910

Monomorium

• Monomorium monomorium Bolton, 1987
• Monomorium pharaonis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Myrmecina

• Myrmecina graminicola (Latreille, 1802)

Myrmica

• Myrmica constricta Karavajev, 1934
• Myrmica curvithorax Bondroit, 1920
• Myrmica deplanata Emery, 1921
• Myrmica gallienii Bondroit, 1920
• Myrmica hellenica Finzi, 1926
• Myrmica lobicornis Nylander, 1846
• Myrmica lonae Finzi, 1926
• Myrmica rubra (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Myrmica ruginodis Nylander, 1846
• Myrmica rugulosa Nylander, 1849
• Myrmica sabuleti Meinert, 1861
• Myrmica scabrinodis Nylander, 1846
• Myrmica schencki Viereckk, 1903
• Myrmica specioides Bondroti, 1918
• Myrmica sulcinodis Nylander, 1846
• Myrmica vandeli Bondroit, 1920

Oxyopomyrmex

• Oxyopomyrmex krueperi Forel, 1911

Pheidole

• Pheidole balcanica Seifert, 2016
• Pheidole pallidula (Nylander, 1849)

Plagiolepis

• Plagiolepis pallescens Forel, 1889
• Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille, 1798)
• Plagiolepis xene Stärcke, 1936

Polyergus

• Polyergus rufescens (Latreille, 1798)

Ponera

• Ponera coarctata (Latreille, 1802)
• Ponera testacea Emery, 1895

Prenolepis

• Prenolepis nitens (Mayr, 1853)

Proceratium

• Proceratium melinum (Roger, 1860)
• Proceratium numidicum Santschi, 1912 (needs confirmation (Lapeva-Gjonova & Antonova, 2022))

Proformica

• Proformica kobachidzei Arnoldi, 1968
• Proformica korbi Emery, 1909
• Proformica nasuta (Nylander, 1856)
• Proformica pilosiscapa Dlussky, 1969
• Proformica striaticeps (Forel, 1911)

Solenopsis

• Solenopsis fugax (Latreille, 1798)

Stenamma

• Stenamma debile (Foerster, 1850)
• Stenamma striatulum (Emery, 1895

Stigmatomma

• Stigmatomma denticulatum Roger, 1842
• Stigmatomma impressifrons Emery, 1869

Strongylognathus

• Strongylognathus bulgaricus Pisarski, 1966
• Strongylognathus testaceus (Schenck, 1852)

Strumigenys

• Strumigenys argiola (Emery, 1869) (known from a single locality)
• Strumigenys baudueri (Emery, 1875)
• Strumigenys tenuipilis Emery, 1915

Tapinoma

• Tapinoma erraticum (Latreille, 1798)
• Tapinoma madeirense Forel, 1895

Temnothorax

• Temnothorax aeolius (Forel, 1911)
• Temnothorax affinis (Mayr, 1855)
• Temnothorax bulgaricus (Forel, 1892)
• Temnothorax clypeatus (Mayr, 1853)
• Temnothorax corticalis (Schenck, 1852)
• Temnothorax crasecundus Seifert & Csősz, 2015
• Temnothorax crassispinus (Karavaiev, 1926)
• Temnothorax finzii (Menozzi, 1925)
• Temnothorax flavicornis (Emery, 1870)
• Temnothorax graecus (Forel, 1911) (known from a single locality)
• Temnothorax helenae Csösz, Heinze & Mikó, 2015
• Temnothorax interruptus (Schenck, 1852)
• Temnothorax korbi (Emery, 1924)
• Temnothorax kraussei (Emery, 1915)
• Temnothorax lichtensteini (Bondroit, 1918)
• Temnothorax microcellatus (Soudek, 1925)
• Temnothorax muellerianus (Finzi, 1922)
• Temnothorax nadigi (Kutter, 1925)
• Temnothorax nigriceps (Mayr, 1855) (needs confirmation (Lapeva-Gjonova & Antonova, 2022))
• Temnothorax parvulus (Schenck, 1852)
• Temnothorax ravouxi (André, 1896)
• Temnothorax recedens (Nylander, 1856)
• Temnothorax rogeri Emery, 1869
• Temnothorax saxonicus (Seifert, 1995)
• Temnothorax semiruber (André, 1881)
• Temnothorax sordidulus (Muller, 1923)
• Temnothorax strymonensis Csősz, Salata & Borowiec, 2018
• Temnothorax tergestinus (Finzi, 1928)
• Temnothorax tuberum (Fabricius, 1775)
• Temnothorax unifasciatus (Latreille, 1798)

Tetramorium

• Tetramorium atratulum (Schenck, 1852)
• Tetramorium buschingeri (Lapeva-Gjonova, 2017)
• Tetramorium caespitum (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Tetramorium chefketi Forel, 1911
• Tetramorium diomedeum Emery, 1908 (known from a single locality)
• Tetramorium ferox Ruzsky, 1903
• Tetramorium hungaricum (Roszler, 1935)
• Tetramorium immigrans Santschi, 1927
• Tetramorium impurum (Förster, 1850)
• Tetramorium indocile Santschi, 1927
• Tetramorium moravicum Kratochvíl, 1941
• Tetramorium staerckei Kratochvíl, 1944

References

• [1] Albena Lapeva-Gjonova, Vera Antonova, Alexander G. Radchenko & Maria Atanasova, 2010. Catalogue of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Bulgaria. ZooKeys 62: 1–124.
• Bezdecka, P.; Bezdĕčková, K. 2010. First record of Pyramica baudueri (Emery, 1875) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Bulgaria. Myrmecological News 13:1-2.
• Borowiec, L., Lapeva-Gjonova, A., Salata, S. 2019. Three Species of Aphaenogaster Mayr, 1853 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) New to the Bulgarian Fauna. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 71(4): 613-616.
• Lapeva-Gjonova, A., Kiran, K. 2012. Ant fauna (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Strandzha (Istranca) Mountain and adjacent Black Sea coast. North-Western Journal of Zoology 8(1), 72-84.
• Lapeva-Gjonova, A., Kiran, K. & Karaman, C. 2014. First records of Temnothorax flavicornis (Emery, 1870) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Bulgaria and Turkey. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 66(4), 571-574.