Iberian Peninsula

Iberian Peninsula
Location
Region	Europe
Subregion	Southern Europe
BioRegion	Palaearctic Region
Diversity
Subfamilies	7
Genera	43
Endemic Genera	0
% Endemic Genera	0.0%
Species/Subspecies	254
Endemic Species	0
% Endemic Species	0.0%
Introduced Species	12

The following valid species and subspecies of ants are known to occur in Iberian Peninsula. 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 Iberian Peninsula ants. Those who have specimen records that expand this list are encouraged to submit this information in the discussion section of the Iberian Peninsula Ants web page. Please advise if any corrections are warranted.

Anochetus

• Anochetus ghilianii (Spinola, 1851)

Aphaenogaster

• Aphaenogaster cardenai (Espadaler, 1981)
• Aphaenogaster dulcineae (Emery, 1924)
• Aphaenogaster gibbosa (Latreille, 1798)
• Aphaenogaster iberica (Emery, 1908)
• Aphaenogaster senilis (Mayr, 1853)
• Aphaenogaster splendida (Roger, 1859) (introduced)
• Aphaenogaster striativentris (Forel, 1895)
• Aphaenogaster subterranea (Latreille, 1798)

Bothriomyrmex

• Bothriomyrmex corsicus Santschi, 1923
• Bothriomyrmex meridionalis (Roger, 1863)
• Bothriomyrmex saundersi (Santschi, 1922)

Camponotus

• Camponotus aethiops (Latreille, 1798)
• Camponotus amaurus (Espadaler, 1997)
• Camponotus barbaricus (Emery, 1905)
• Camponotus cruentatus (Latreille, 1802)
• Camponotus fallax (Nylander, 1856)
• Camponotus foreli (Emery, 1881)
• Camponotus gestroi (Emery, 1878)
• Camponotus haroi (Espadaler, 1997)
• Camponotus herculeanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Camponotus lateralis (Olivier, 1792)
• Camponotus ligniperda (Latreille, 1802)
• Camponotus micans (Nylander, 1856)
• Camponotus piceus (Leach, 1825)
• Camponotus pilicornis (Roger, 1859)
• Camponotus sicheli (Mayr, 1866)
• Camponotus sylvaticus (Olivier, 1792)
• Camponotus universitatis (Forel, 1890)
• Camponotus vagus (Scopoli, 1763)

Cataglyphis

• Cataglyphis douwesi (De Haro & Collingwood, 2000)
• Cataglyphis floricola (Tinaut, 1993)
• Cataglyphis hispanica (Emery, 1906)
• Cataglyphis humeya (Tinaut, 1991)
• Cataglyphis iberica (Emery, 1906)
• Cataglyphis piliscapa (Forel, 1901)
• Cataglyphis rosenhaueri (Santschi, 1925)
• Cataglyphis velox (Santschi, 1929)

Cardiocondyla

• Cardiocondyla batesii (Forel, 1894)
• Cardiocondyla elegans (Emery, 1869)
• Cardiocondyla mauritanica (Forel, 1890)
• Cardiocondyla nigra (Forel, 1905)

Colobopsis

• Colobopsis truncata (Spinola, 1808)

Crematogaster

• Crematogaster auberti (Emery, 1869)
• Crematogaster fuentei (Menozzi, 1922)
• Crematogaster laestrygon (Emery, 1869)
• Crematogaster scutellaris (Olivier, 1792)
• Crematogaster sordidula (Nylander, 1849)

Cryptopone

• Cryptopone ochracea (Mayr, 1855)

Dolichoderus

• Dolichoderus quadripunctatus (Linnaeus, 1771)

Formica

• Formica bruni (Kutter, 1967)
• Formica cinerea (Mayr, 1853)
• Formica cunicularia (Latreille, 1798)
• Formica decipiens (Bondroit, 1918)
• Formica dusmeti (Emery, 1909)
• Formica exsecta (Nylander, 1846)
• Formica foreli (Bondroit, 1918)
• Formica frontalis (Santschi, 1919)
• Formica fusca (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Formica gagates (Latreille, 1798)
• Formica gerardi Bondroit, 1917
• Formica lemani (Bondroit, 1917)
• Formica lugubris (Zetterstedt, 1838)
• Formica paralugubris (Seifert, 1996)
• Formica picea (Nylander, 1846)
• Formica polyctena (Förster, 1850)
• Formica pratensis (Retzius, 1783)
• Formica pressilabris (Nylander, 1846)
• Formica rufa (Linnaeus, 1761)
• Formica rufibarbis (Fabricius, 1793)
• Formica sanguinea (Latreille, 1798)
• Formica selysi (Bondroit, 1918)

Formicoxenus

• Formicoxenus nitidulus (Nylander, 1846)

Goniomma

• Goniomma baeticum (Reyes & Rodríguez, 1987)
• Goniomma blanci (André, 1881)
• Goniomma collingwoodi (Espadaler, 1997)
• Goniomma compressisquama (Tinaut, ??)
• Goniomma decipiens (Espadaler, 1997)
• Goniomma hispanicum (André, 1883)
• Goniomma kugleri (Espadaler, 1986)

Harpagoxenus

• Harpagoxenus sublaevis (Nylander, 1849

Hypoponera

• Hypoponera abeillei (André, 1881)
• Hypoponera eduardi (Forel, 1894)
• Hypoponera punctatissima (Roger, 1859) (introduced)
• Hypoponera ragusai (Emery, 1894)

Iberoformica

• Iberoformica subrufa (Roger, 1859)

Lasius

• Lasius alienus (Schenck, 1852)
• Lasius bicornis (Förster, 1850)
• Lasius brunneus (Latreille, 1798)
• Lasius carniolicus (Mayr, 1861)
• Lasius cinereus (Seifert, 1992)
• Lasius citrinus (Emery, 1922)
• Lasius distinguendus (Emery, 1916)
• Lasius emarginatus (Olivier, 1792)
• Lasius flavus (Fabricius, 1782)
• Lasius fuliginosus (Latreille, 1798)
• Lasius grandis (Forel, 1909)
• Lasius lasioides (Emery, 1869)
• Lasius meridionalis (Bondroit, 1920)
• Lasius mixtus (Nylander, 1846)
• Lasius myops (Forel, 1894)
• Lasius neglectus (Van Loon, Boomsma & Andrásfalvy, 1990) (introduced)
• Lasius niger (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Lasius paralienus (Seifert, 1992)
• Lasius piliferus (Seifert, 1992)
• Lasius platythorax (Seifert, 1992)
• Lasius psammophilus (Seifert, 1992)
• Lasius rabaudi (Bondroit, 1917)
• Lasius sabularum (Bondroit, 1918)
• Lasius turcicus Santschi, 1921 (introduced)
• Lasius umbratus (Nylander, 1846)

Lepisiota

• Lepisiota nigra (Dalla Torre, 1893)

Leptanilla

• Leptanilla charonea (López, Martínez & Barandica, 1994)
• Leptanilla plutonia (López, Martínez & Barandica, 1994)
• Leptanilla revelierii (Emery, 1870)
• Leptanilla zaballosi (López, Martínez & Barandica, 1994)

Leptothorax

• Leptothorax acervorum (Fabricius, 1793)
• Leptothorax gredleri (Mayr, 1855)
• Leptothorax muscorum (Nylander, 1846)

Linepithema

• Linepithema humile (Mayr, 1868) (introduced)

Messor

• Messor barbarus (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Messor bouvieri (Bondroit, 1918)
• Messor capitatus (Latreille, 1798)
• Messor celiae (Reyes, 1985)
• Messor hispanicus (Santschi, 1919)
• Messor lobicornis (Forel, 1894)
• Messor lusitanicus (Tinaut, 1985)
• Messor marocanus (Santschi, 1927)
• Messor timidus (Espadaler, 1997)

Monomorium

• Monomorium advena Brown & Wilson, 1957
• Monomorium algiricum (Bernard, 1955)
• Monomorium andrei Saunders, 1890 (introduced)
• Monomorium carbonarium (F Smith, 1858)
• Monomorium monomorium (Bolton, 1987)
• Monomorium pharaonis (Linnaeus, 1758) (introduced)
• Monomorium salomonis (Linnaeus, 1758) (introduced)
• Monomorium subopacum (F Smith, 1858)

Myrmecina

• Myrmecina graminicola (Latreille, 1802)

Myrmica

• Myrmica aloba (Forel, 1909)
• Myrmica karavajevi (Arnoldi, 1930)
• Myrmica lemasnei (Bernard, 1967)
• Myrmica lobulicornis (Nylander, 1857)
• Myrmica rubra (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Myrmica ruginodis (Nylander, 1846)
• Myrmica sabuleti (Meinert, 1861)
• Myrmica scabrinodis (Nylander, 1846)
• Myrmica schencki (Viereck, 1903)
• Myrmica specioides (Bondroit, 1918)
• Myrmica spinosior (Santschi, 1931)
• Myrmica sulcinodis (Nylander, 1846)
• Myrmica vandeli (Bondroit, 1920)
• Myrmica wesmaeli (Bondroit, 1918)

Nylanderia

• Nylanderia flavipes (F Smith, 1874) (introduced)
• Nylanderia jaegerskioeldi (Mayr, 1904) (introduced)

Oxyopomyrmex

• Oxyopomyrmex saulcyi (Emery, 1889)

Paratrechina

• Paratrechina longicornis (Latreille, 1802) (introduced)

Pheidole

• Pheidole indica Mayr, 1879
• Pheidole pallidula (Nylander, 1849)

Plagiolepis

• Plagiolepis grassei (Le Masne, 1956)
• Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille, 1798)
• Plagiolepis schmitzii (Forel, 1895)
• Plagiolepis xene (Stärcke, 1936)

Polyergus

• Polyergus rufescens (Latreille, 1798)

Ponera

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

Proceratium

• Proceratium melinum (Roger, 1860)

Proformica

• Proformica ferreri (Bondroit, 1918)
• Proformica longiseta (Collingwood, 1978)
• Proformica nasuta (Nylander, 1856)

Rossomyrmex

• Rossomyrmex minuchae (Tinaut, 1981)

Solenopsis

• Solenopsis fairchildi (Wheeler, 1926)
• Solenopsis fugax (Latreille, 1798)
• Solenopsis latro (Forel, 1894)
• Solenopsis lusitanica (Emery, 1915)
• Solenopsis oraniensis (Forel, 1894)
• Solenopsis orbula (Emery, 1875)

Stenamma

• Stenamma debile (Förster, 1850)
• Stenamma striatulum (Emery, 1894)

Stigmatomma

• Stigmatomma emeryi Saunders, 1890
• Stigmatomma gaetulicum Baroni Urbani, 1978
• Stigmatomma impressifrons Emery, 1869

Strongylognathus

• Strongylognathus caeciliae (Forel, 1897)
• Strongylognathus huberi (Forel, 1874)
• Strongylognathus testaceus (Schenck, 1852)

Strumigenys

• Strumigenys argiola (Emery, 1869)
• Strumigenys baudueri (Emery, 1875)
• Strumigenys membranifera (Emery, 1869)
• Strumigenys silvestrii Emery, 1906
• Strumigenys tenuipilis (Emery, 1915)

Tapinoma

• Tapinoma erraticum (Latreille, 1798)
• Tapinoma madeirense Forel, 1895
• Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793)
• Tapinoma pygmaeum (Dufour, 1857)
• Tapinoma simrothi (Krausse, 1911)

Temnothorax

• Temnothorax affinis (Mayr, 1855)
• Temnothorax albipennis (Curtis, 1854)
• Temnothorax alfacarensis Tinaut & Reyes-López, 2020
• Temnothorax algiricus (Forel, 1894)
• Temnothorax angustulus (Nylander, 1856)
• Temnothorax ansei Catarineu, Barberá & Reyes-López, 2017
• Temnothorax atlantis (Santschi, 1911)
• Temnothorax aveli (Bondroit, 1918)
• Temnothorax baeticus (Emery, 1924)
• Temnothorax bejaraniensis Reyes-López & Carpintero-Ortega, 2013
• Temnothorax bernardi (Espadaler, 1982)
• Temnothorax blascoi (Espadaler, 1997)
• Temnothorax caesari (Espadaler, 1997)
• Temnothorax cagnianti (Tinaut, 1983)
• Temnothorax clypeatus (Mayr, 1853)
• Temnothorax corticalis (Schenck, 1852)
• Temnothorax crepuscularis (Tinaut, 1994)
• Temnothorax cristinae (Espadaler, 1997)
• Temnothorax exilis Emery, 1869
• Temnothorax flavispinus (André, 1883)
• Temnothorax formosus (Santschi, 1909)
• Temnothorax gredosi (Espadaler & Collingwood, 1982)
• Temnothorax grouvellei (Bondroit, 1918)
• Temnothorax ibericus (Menozzi, 1922)
• Temnothorax interruptus (Schenck, 1852)
• Temnothorax kraussei (Emery, 1915)
• Temnothorax kutteri (Cagniant, 1973)
• Temnothorax lichtensteini (Bondroit, 1918)
• Temnothorax longispinosus (Roger, 1863) (introduced)
• Temnothorax luteus (Forel, 1874)
• Temnothorax mediterraneus Ward et al., 2014
• Temnothorax muellerianus (Finzi, 1922)
• Temnothorax nadigi (Kutter, 1925)
• Temnothorax naeviventris (Santschi, 1910)
• Temnothorax niger (Forel, 1894)
• Temnothorax nigriceps (Mayr, 1855)
• Temnothorax nylanderi (Förster, 1850)
• Temnothorax pardoi (Tinaut, 1987)
• Temnothorax parvulus (Schenck, 1852)
• Temnothorax platycephalus (Espadaler, 1997)
• Temnothorax racovitzai (Bondroit, 1918)
• Temnothorax ravouxi (André, 1896)
• Temnothorax recedens (Nylander, 1856)
• Temnothorax schaufussi (Forel, 1879)
• Temnothorax subcingulatus (Emery, 1924)
• Temnothorax tuberum (Fabricius, 1775)
• Temnothorax tyndalei (Forel, 1909)
• Temnothorax unifasciatus (Latreille, 1798)
• Temnothorax universitatis (Espadaler, 1997)

Tetramorium

• Tetramorium atratulum (Schenck, 1852)
• Tetramorium bicarinatum (Nylander, 1846)
• Tetramorium caldarium (Roger, 1857)
• Tetramorium caespitum (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Tetramorium forte Forel, 1904
• Tetramorium impurum (Förster, 1850)
• Tetramorium inquilinum Ward et al., 2014
• Tetramorium kutteri (Tinaut, 1990)
• Tetramorium lanuginosum (Mayr, 1870)
• Tetramorium meridionale (Emery, 1870)
• Tetramorium semilaeve (André, 1883)

References

• [1] C. A. Collingwood & I.H.H. Yarrow, 1969. A survey of Iberian Formicidae (Hymenoptera). 53-100.
• [2] Espadaler, X., García, F., Gómez, K., Serrano, S. & Vila, R. 2009. Hormigas (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) del desfiladero de Mont-Rebei (Pallars Jussà). Boletín de la Sociedad entomológica Aragonesa 44: 393-399.
• Introduced species