Greece



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

A

 * Acropyga paleartica 	Menozzi, 1936


 * Aenictus rhodiensis 	Menozzi, 1936


 * Amblyopone denticulata 	Roger, 1859


 * Amblyopone impressifrons (Emery, 1869)


 * Anergates atratulus 	Schenck, 1852


 * Aphaenogaster balcanica (Emery, 1898)


 * Aphaenogaster cecconii 	Emery, 1894


 * Aphaenogaster festae 	Emery, 1915


 * Aphaenogaster graeca 	Schulz, 1994


 * Aphaenogaster ionia Emery, 1915


 * Aphaenogaster ledouxi Tohme, 1969


 * Aphaenogaster lesbica 	Forel, 1913


 * Aphaenogaster muelleriana (Emery, 1898)


 * Aphaenogaster obsidiana (Mayr, 1861)


 * Aphaenogaster ovaticeps (Emery, 1898)


 * Aphaenogaster sangiorgii 	Emery, 1901


 * Aphaenogaster sangiorgii (Emery, 1901)


 * Aphaenogaster semipolita (Nylander, 1856)


 * Aphaenogaster simonellii 	Emery, 1894


 * Aphaenogaster splendida (Roger, 1859)


 * Aphaenogaster splendida rugosoferruginea 	Forel, 1889


 * Aphaenogaster strioloides Forel, 1890


 * Aphaenogaster subterranea (Latreille, 1798)


 * Aphaenogaster subterraneoides Emery, 1881


 * Aphaenogaster testaceopilosa (Lucas, 1849)

B

 * Bothriomyrmex adriacus Santschi, 1922


 * 'Bothriomyrmex atlantis (Roger, 1863)


 * Bothriomyrmex gibbus Soudek, 1925


 * Bothriomyrmex jannonei  Menozzi, 1936


 * Bothriomyrmex meridionalis (Roger, 1863)

C

 * Camponotus aegaeus 	Emery, 1915


 * Camponotus aethiops 	Latreille, 1798


 * Camponotus andrius 	Dalla Torre, 1893


 * Camponotus baldaccii 	Emery, 1908


 * Camponotus candiotes 	Emery, 1894


 * Camponotus cecconii Emery, 1908


 * Camponotus compressus cosensis 	Finzi, 1939


 * Camponotus concavus Forel, 1889


 * Camponotus dalmaticus (Nylander, 1849)


 * Camponotus fallax 	Nylander, 1856


 * Camponotus festai Emery, 1894


 * Camponotus gestroi 	Emery, 1878


 * Camponotus herculeanus Brulle, 1833


 * Camponotus ionius 	Emery, 1920


 * Camponotus jaliensis 	Dalla Torre, 1893


 * Camponotus kiesenwetteri 	Roger, 1859


 * Camponotus laconicus 	Emery, 1920


 * Camponotus lateralis 	Olivier, 1792


 * Camponotus libanicus Andre, 1881


 * Camponotus ligniperda (Latreille, 1802)


 * Camponotus maculatus (Fabricius, 1872)


 * Camponotus maculatus sylvaticomaculatus 	Dalla Torre, 1893


 * Camponotus oertzeni Forel, 1889


 * Camponotus oertzeni kappariensis 	Dalla Torre, 1893


 * Camponotus piceus 	Leach, 1825


 * Camponotus pilicornis (Roger, 1859)


 * Camponotus samius 	Forel, 1889


 * Camponotus sanctus Forel, 1904


 * Camponotus sylvaticus (Olivier, 1792)


 * Camponotus thales Forel, 1910


 * Camponotus truncatus (Spinola, 1808)


 * Camponotus vagus (Scopoli, 1763)


 * Camponotus variegatus (Smith, F. 1858)


 * Cardiocondyla batesii Forel, 1894


 * Cardiocondyla bulgarica Forel, 1892


 * Cardiocondyla elegans Emery, 1869


 * Cardiocondyla mauritanica Forel, 1890


 * Cardiocondyla nigra Forel, 1905


 * Cardiocondyla stambuloffii Forel, 1892


 * Carebara oertzeni 	Forel, 1886


 * Cataglyphis aenescens (Nylander, 1849)


 * Cataglyphis albicans (Roger, 1859)


 * Cataglyphis bicolor rufiventris 	Emery, 1925


 * Cataglyphis bombycina Roger, 1859


 * Cataglyphis cursor (Fonscolmbe, 1846)


 * Cataglyphis cursor cretica 	Forel, 1910


 * Cataglyphis hellenica 	Forel, 1886


 * Cataglyphis noda (Brullé, 1833)


 * Cataglyphis viaticoides (Andre, 1881)


 * Chalepoxenus muellerianus (Finzi, 1922)


 * Crematogaster auberti Emery, 1869


 * Crematogaster ionia Forel, 1911


 * Crematogaster lorteti Forel, 1910


 * Crematogaster lorteti hellenica Forel, 1911


 * Crematogaster schmidti (Mayr, 1852)


 * Crematogaster scutellaris (Olivier, 1792)


 * Crematogaster sordidula (Nylander, 1849)

D

 * Dolichoderus quadripunctatus (Linnaeus, 1771)

F

 * Formica balcanina Petrov & Collingwood, 1993


 * Formica cinerea Mayr, 1853


 * Formica clara Seifert, 1997


 * Formica cunicularia Latreille, 1798


 * Formica exsecta Nylander, 1846


 * Formica fusca Linnaeus, 1758


 * Formica gagates Latreille, 1798


 * Formica lemani Bondroit, 1917


 * Formica lugubris Zetterstedt, 1840


 * Formica picea Nassonov, 1889


 * Formica pratensis 	Retzius, 1783


 * Formica rufa Linnaeus, 1761


 * Formica rufibarbis Fabricius, 1793


 * Formica sanguinea Latreille, 1798


 * Formicoxenus nitidulus (Nylander, 1846)

H

 * Hypoponera eduardi (Forel, 1894)


 * Hypoponera punctatissima (Roger, 1859)

L

 * Lasius alienus (Forster, 1850)


 * Lasius bicornis 	Foerster, 1850


 * Lasius brunneus Forel, 1874


 * Lasius carniolicus Mayr, 1861


 * Lasius citrinus (Schenck, 1852)


 * Lasius distinguendus (Emery, 1916)


 * Lasius emarginatus (Olivier, 1791)


 * Lasius flavus (Fabricius,, 1781)


 * Lasius fuliginosus (Latreille, 1798)


 * Lasius karpinisi 	Seifert, 1992


 * Lasius lasioides (Emery, 1869)


 * Lasius meridionalis (Bondroit, 1920)


 * Lasius mixtus (Nylander, 1846)


 * Lasius myops Forel, 1894


 * Lasius myrmidon Mei, 1998


 * Lasius neglectus van Loon, Boomsma & Andrasfalvy, 1990


 * Lasius niger (Brulle, 1833)


 * Lasius paralienus Seifert, 1992


 * Lasius platythorax Seifert, 1991


 * Lasius turcicus Santschi, 1921


 * Lasius umbratus (Nylander, 1846)


 * Lasius viehmeyeri Emery, 1922


 * Lepisiota bipartita (Smith, F. 1861)


 * Lepisiota frauenfeldi (Mayr, 1855)


 * Lepisiota karawaiewi Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929


 * Lepisiota melas 	Emery, 1915


 * Lepisiota nigra (Dalla Torre, 1893)


 * Lasius myrmidon 	Mei, 1998


 * Lasius neglectus Van Loon, Boomsma & Andrasfalvy, 1990


 * Lasius viehmeyeri 	Emery, 1922


 * Lepisiota splendens 	Karavaiev, 1912


 * Lepisiota syriaca (Andre, 1881)


 * Leptanilla species


 * Leptothorax acervorum (Fabricius, 1793)


 * Leptothorax gredleri Mayr, 1855


 * Leptothorax muscorum (Nylander, 1846)


 * Liometopum microcephalum (Panzer, 1798)

M

 * Manica rubida (Latreille, 1802)


 * Messor alexandri Thome & Thome, 1981


 * Messor antennatus fodorii 	Röszler, 1942


 * Messor barbarus (Fabricius, 1804)


 * Messor bouvieri Bondroit, 1918


 * Messor caducus Motschulsky, 1839


 * Messor capitatus (Latreille, 1798)


 * Messor denticulatus Santschi, 1927


 * Messor ebeninus Santschi, 1927


 * Messor hellenius 	Agosti & Collingwood, 1987


 * Messor intermedius Santschi, 1927


 * Messor meridionalis 	André, 1883


 * Messor oertzeni Forel, 1910


 * Messor oertzeni carpathous Menozzi, 1936


 * Messor orientalis (Latreille, 1798)


 * Messor structor (Latreille, 1798)


 * Messor sultanus Santschi, 1917


 * Messor wasmanni (Andre, 1883)


 * Monomorium abeillei Andre, 1881


 * Monomorium creticum Emery, 1895 (Crete)


 * Monomorium dentigerum (Roger, 1862)


 * Monomorium monomorium Mayr, 1855


 * Monomorium nitidiventre Emery, 1893


 * Monomorium perplexum Radchenko, 1997


 * Monomorium pharaonis Menozzi, 1928


 * Monomorium phoenicum Santschi, 1927


 * Monomorium subopacum (Smith, F. 1858)


 * Myrmecina graminicola Latreille, 1802


 * Myrmica constricta 	Karavaiev, 1934


 * Myrmica gallienii Bondroit, 1920


 * Myrmica hellenica 	Finzi, 1926


 * Myrmica karavajevi (Arnold, 1930)


 * Myrmica lobicornis Nylander, 1846


 * Myrmica pelops 	Seifert, 2003


 * Myrmica ravasinii  Finzi, 1923


 * Myrmica rubra (Linnaeus, 1758)


 * Myrmica ruginodis Nylander, 1846


 * Myrmica rugulosa Nylander, 1849


 * Myrmica sabuleti Meinert, 1861


 * Myrmica scabrinodis Nylander, 1846


 * Myrmica specioides Bondroit, 1918


 * Myrmica sulcinodis Nylander, 1846


 * Myrmoxenus adlerzi 	Douwes, Jessen & Buschinger, 1988


 * Myrmoxenus gordiagini Ruzsky, 1902


 * Myrmoxenus kraussei (Emery, 1915)


 * Myrmoxenus ravouxi (Andre, 1896)

N

 * Nylanderia jaegerskioeldi (Nylander,1846)

O

 * Oxyopomyrmex krueperi 	Forel, 1911


 * Oxyopomyrmex lagoi 	Menozzi, 1936

P

 * Pachycondyla ochracea (Mayr, 1855)


 * Pheidole megacephala (Fabricius, 1793)


 * Pheidole pallidula (Nylander, 1848)


 * Pheidole teneriffana Forel, 1893


 * Plagiolepis ancyrensis Forel, 1889


 * Plagiolepis pallescens 	Forel, 1889


 * Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille, 1798)


 * Plagiolepis pygmaea minu 	Forel, 1911


 * Plagiolepis taurica Santschi, 1920


 * Plagiolepis vindobonensis Lommicki, 1925


 * Plagiolepis xene Starcke, 1936


 * Polyergus rufescens 	Latreille, 1798


 * ''Ponera coarctata (Latreille, 1802)


 * Ponera testacea Emery, 1895


 * Prenolepis nitens (Mayr, 1852)


 * Proceratium algiricum (Forel, 1899)


 * Proceratium melinum 	Roger, 1860


 * Proformica nasuta 	Nylander, 1856


 * Proformica nitida Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1923


 * Proformica oculatissima 	Forel, 1886


 * Proformica striaticeps 	Forel, 1911

S

 * Solenopsis crivellarii 	Menozzi, 1936


 * Solenopsis fugax (Latreille, 1798)


 * Solenopsis geminata (Fabricius, 1804)


 * Solenopsis latro Forel, 1894


 * Solenopsis wolfi Emery, 1915


 * Stenamma debile Westwood, 1839


 * Strongylognathus dalmaticus Baroni Urbani, 1969


 * Strongylognathus silvestrii 	Menozzi, 1936


 * Strongylognathus testaceus (Schenck, 1852)


 * Strumigenys argiola 	Emery, 1869


 * Strumigenys baudueri 	Emery, 1875


 * Strumigenys membranifera (Emery, 1869)


 * Strumigenys tenuipilis 	Emery, 1915


 * Strumigenys tenuissima 	Brown, 1953

T

 * Tapinoma erraticum (Latreille, 1798)


 * Tapinoma festae  (Emery, 1925)


 * Tapinoma israele Forel, 1904


 * Tapinoma madeirense Emery, 1925


 * Tapinoma simrothi Krausse, 1911


 * Temnothorax affinis (Mayr, 1855)


 * Temnothorax bulgaricus (Forel, 1892)


 * Temnothorax clypeatus (Mayr, 1853)


 * Temnothorax corticalis 	(Schenck, 1852)


 * Temnothorax dessyi 	Menozzi, 1936


 * Temnothorax exilis (Emery, 1881)


 * Temnothorax graecus 	Forel, 1911


 * Temnothorax interruptus (Schenck, 1852)


 * Temnothorax niger (Forel, 1894)


 * Temnothorax nigriceps  Mayr, 1855


 * Temnothorax nigritus (Emery, 1878)


 * Temnothorax nylanderi (Foerster, 1850)


 * Temnothorax recedens 	Nylander, 1856


 * Temnothorax semiruber (Andre, 1881)


 * Temnothorax solerii (Menozzi, 1936)


 * Temnothorax tuberum 	Fabricius, 1775


 * Temnothorax unifasciatus (Latreille, 1798)


 * Tetramorium biskrense Forel, 1904


 * Tetramorium caespitum 	Linnaeus, 1758


 * Tetramorium chefketi 	Forel, 1911


 * Tetramorium davidi Forel, 1911


 * Tetramorium diomedeum Emery, 1908


 * Tetramorium ferox Ruzsky, 1903


 * Tetramorium feroxoides Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985


 * Tetramorium forte Forel, 1904


 * Tetramorium hippocratis Agosti & Collingwood, 1987


 * Tetramorium lucidulum Emery, 1909


 * Tetramorium meridionale Emery, 1870


 * Tetramorium moravicum Kratochvíl, 1941


 * Tetramorium punctatum Santschi, 1927


 * Tetramorium punicum Forel, 1886


 * Tetramorium rhodium Emery, 1924


 * Tetramorium sahlbergi Finzi, 1936


 * Tetramorium schmidti Forel, 1904


 * Tetramorium semilaeve André, 1889


 * Tetramorium splendens Ruzsky, 1902