Cardiocondyla dalmatica

This is a moderately common species in Greece, so far recorded from three mainland and three island provinces. Several nests were observed along a sandy path in a pine forest (Borowiec & Salata, 2021).

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Bulgaria, Croatia.

Nomenclature

 * . Cardiocondyla elegans var. dalmatica Soudek, 1925a: 34 (w.) MONTENEGRO.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “one colony”).
 * Type-locality: Montenegro: Gulf of Kotor (Boce Kotorské), Erceg Novi (Castelnuovo), vii. 1922 (S. Soudek).
 * Type-depositories: MIZW, NHMB.
 * [Note: syntypes also in Soudek personal collection, location unknown.]
 * [Also described as new by Soudek, 1925b: 14.]
 * Subspecies of elegans: Santschi, 1926f: 292; Zimmermann, 1935: 20; Bolton, 1995b: 132.
 * Junior synonym of elegans: Radchenko, 1995b: 449; Seifert, 2003a: 225; Karaman, M.G. 2011b: 21.
 * Status as species: Seifert, 2018: 187.
 * Distribution: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey.
 * [Note: distribution from Borowiec, L. 2014: 46, modified after Seifert, 2018: 186-187.]