Italy

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

Aphaenogaster

 * Aphaenogaster balcanica (Emery, 1898)
 * Aphaenogaster campana Emery, 1878
 * Aphaenogaster epirotes (Emery, 1895)
 * Aphaenogaster finzii Muller, 1921
 * Aphaenogaster fiorii Emery, 1915
 * Aphaenogaster ichnusa Santschi, 1925
 * Aphaenogaster inermita Bolton, 1995
 * Aphaenogaster italica Bondroit, 1918
 * Aphaenogaster ovaticeps Emery, 1898
 * Aphaenogaster pallida Nylander, 1849
 * Aphaenogaster picena Baroni Urbani, 1971
 * Aphaenogaster sardoa Mayr, 1853
 * Aphaenogaster semipolita Nylander, 1856
 * Aphaenogaster senilis Mayr, 1853
 * Aphaenogaster spinosa Emery, 1878
 * Aphaenogaster subterranea (Latreille, 1798)
 * Aphaenogaster subterraneosplendida André, 1883
 * Aphaenogaster trinacriae Alicata & Schifani, 2019

Bothriomyrmex

 * Bothriomyrmex communista Santschi, 1919
 * Bothriomyrmex corsicus 	Santschi, 1923
 * Bothriomyrmex costae 	Emery, 1869

Camponotus

 * Camponotus aethiops Mayr, 1855
 * Camponotus cruentatus (Latreille, 1802)
 * Camponotus dalmaticus (Nylander, 1849)
 * Camponotus gestroi Emery, 1878
 * Camponotus herculeanus 	Linnaeus, 1758
 * Camponotus lateralis 	Olivier, 1792
 * Camponotus piceus 	Leach, 1825
 * Camponotus pilicornis siculus Grandi, 1935
 * Camponotus tergestinus 	Müller, 1921
 * Camponotus universitatis Forel, 1890
 * Camponotus vagus (Scopoli, 1763)

Cardiocondyla

 * Cardiocondyla elegans 	Emery, 1869

Cataglyphis

 * Cataglyphis italica 	Emery, 1906

Cataulacus

 * Cataulacus planiceps Emery, 1891 [fossil; Sicily]

Colobopsis

 * Colobopsis imitans Schifani, Giannetti, Csősz, Castellucci, Luchetti, Castracani, Spotti, Mori & Grasso, 2021
 * Colobopsis truncata (Spinola, 1808)

Crematogaster

 * Crematogaster schmidti 	Mayr, 1853
 * Crematogaster scutellaris 	Olivier, 1792
 * Crematogaster scutellaris nigra Krausse, 1912
 * Crematogaster sordidula (Nylander, 1849)

Cryptopone

 * Cryptopone ochracea (Mayr, 1855)
 * Cryptopone ochracea sicula (Emery, 1909)

Dorylus

 * Dorylus helvolus 	Linnaeus, 1764

Formica

 * Formica aquilonia 	Yarrow, 1955
 * Formica cinerea 	Mayr, 1853
 * Formica clara Forel, 1886
 * Formica cunicularia Latreille, 1798
 * Formica exsecta Nylander, 1846
 * Formica lemani 	Bondroit, 1917
 * Formica lugubris 	Zetterstedt, 1838
 * Formica picea 	Nylander, 1846
 * Formica polyctena 	Foerster, 1850
 * Formica pratensis 	Retzius, 1783
 * Formica rufa 	Linnaeus, 1761
 * Formica rufibarbis Fabricius, 1793

Formicoxenus

 * Formicoxenus nitidulus 	Nylander, 1846

Harpagoxenus

 * Harpagoxenus sublaevis 	Nylander, 1849

Hypoponera

 * Hypoponera abeillei (André, 1881)
 * Hypoponera eduardi (Forel, 1894)
 * Hypoponera punctatissima 	(Roger, 1857)
 * Hypoponera ragusai (Emery, 1894)

Lasius

 * Lasius alienus Foerster, 1850
 * Lasius bicornis Foerster, 1850
 * Lasius brunneus Latreille, 1798
 * Lasius citrinus Emery, 1922
 * Lasius distinguendus Emery, 1916
 * Lasius emarginatus Olivier, 1792
 * Lasius flavus (Fabricius, 1782)
 * Lasius fuliginosus (Latreille, 1798)
 * Lasius lasioides Emery, 1869
 * Lasius maltaeus Seifert, 2020
 * Lasius neglectus Van Loon, Boomsma & Andrasfalvy, 1990
 * Lasius paralienus Seifert, 1992
 * Lasius platythorax Seifert, 1991
 * Lasius psammophilus Seifert, 1992

Lepisiota

 * Lepisiota nigra 	Dalla Torre, 1893

Leptanilla

 * Leptanilla doderoi Emery, 1915
 * Leptanilla poggii 	Mei, 1995
 * Leptanilla revelierii Emery, 1870

Manica

 * Manica rubida (Latreille, 1802)

Messor

 * Messor capitatus 	Latreille, 1798
 * Messor ibericus Santschi, 1931
 * Messor minor André, 1883
 * Messor minor calabricus 	Santschi, 1927
 * Messor minor capreensis Santschi, 1927
 * Messor semirufus (André, 1883)
 * Messor structor tyrrhenus Emery, 1898
 * Messor wasmanni Krausse, 1910

Monomorium

 * Monomorium monomorium 	Bolton, 1987
 * Monomorium subopacum 	Smith, F., 1858

Myrmecina

 * Myrmecina graminicola 	Latreille, 1802
 * Myrmecina melonii 	Rigato, 1999
 * Myrmecina sicula André, 1882

Myrmica

 * Myrmica constricta 	Karavaiev, 1934
 * Myrmica hellenica Forel, 1913
 * Myrmica karavajevi 	(Arnol’di, 1930)
 * Myrmica laurae 	Emery, 1907
 * Myrmica lobicornis 	Nylander, 1846
 * Myrmica lobulicornis Nylander, 1857
 * Myrmica obscura Finzi, 1926
 * Myrmica scabrinodis Nylander, 1846
 * Myrmica schencki 	Viereck, 1903
 * Myrmica siciliana Radchenko, Elmes & Alicata, 2006
 * Myrmica specioides 	Bondroit, 1918
 * Myrmica spinosior Santschi, 1931
 * Myrmica tulinae Elmes, Radchenko & Aktaç, 2002

Oxyopomyrmex

 * Oxyopomyrmex saulcyi Emery, 1889

Pheidole

 * Pheidole megacephala (Fabricius, 1793)
 * Pheidole pallidula Nylander, 1849

Plagiolepis

 * Plagiolepis grassei Le Masne, 1956
 * 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 algiricum 	Forel, 1899

Solenopsis

 * Solenopsis fugax (Latreille, 1798)
 * Solenopsis geminata (Fabricius, 1804)
 * Solenopsis latro sicula Emery, 1915

Stenamma

 * Stenamma debile (Foerster, 1850)
 * Stenamma petiolatum 	Emery, 1897
 * Stenamma sardoum Emery, 1915
 * Stenamma siculum Rigato, 2011
 * Stenamma striatulum 	Emery, 1895
 * Stenamma zanoni Rigato, 2011

Stigmatomma

 * Stigmatomma impressifrons 	(Emery, 1869)

Strongylognathus

 * Strongylognathus alboini 	Finzi, 1924
 * Strongylognathus destefanii 	Emery, 1915
 * Strongylognathus huberi 	Forel, 1874
 * Strongylognathus huberi dalmaticus Baroni Urbani, 1969
 * Strongylognathus insularis 	Baroni Urbani, 1968
 * Strongylognathus italicus 	Finzi, 1924
 * Strongylognathus pisarskii 	Poldi, 1994

Strumigenys

 * Strumigenys argiola 	Emery, 1869
 * Strumigenys baudueri 	Emery, 1875
 * Strumigenys membranifera 	Emery, 1869
 * Strumigenys tenuipilis 	Emery, 1915

Tapinoma

 * Tapinoma darioi Seifert, D'Eustacchio, Kaufmann, Centorame & Modica, 2017
 * Tapinoma erraticum 	Latreille, 1798
 * Tapinoma madeirense Forel, 1895
 * Tapinoma magnum Mayr, 1861
 * Tapinoma nigerrimum Nylander, 1856
 * Tapinoma simrothi Krausse, 1911

Technomyrmex

 * Technomyrmex elatior Forel, 1902

Temnothorax

 * Temnothorax affinis 	Mayr, 1855
 * Temnothorax albipennis (Curtis, 1854)
 * Temnothorax alienus Schulz, Heinze & Pusch, 2007
 * Temnothorax crassispinus (Karavaiev, 1926)
 * Temnothorax exilis Emery, 1869
 * Temnothorax finzii 	Menozzi, 1925
 * Temnothorax flavicornis 	Emery, 1870
 * Temnothorax gordiagini (Ruzsky, 1902)
 * Temnothorax italicus 	Consani, 1952
 * Temnothorax kraussei (Emery, 1915)
 * Temnothorax laestrygon Santschi, 1931
 * Temnothorax lagrecai 	Baroni Urbani, 1964
 * Temnothorax leviceps 	Emery, 1898
 * Temnothorax lichtensteini Bondroit, 1918
 * Temnothorax marae Alicata, Schifani & Prebus, 2022
 * Temnothorax mediterraneus Ward et al., 2014
 * Temnothorax minozzii 	Santschi, 1922
 * Temnothorax muellerianus (Finzi, 1922)
 * Temnothorax parvulus (Schenck, 1852)
 * Temnothorax pelagosanus 	Müller, 1923
 * Temnothorax poldii Alicata, Schifani & Prebus, 2022
 * Temnothorax ravouxi (André, 1896)
 * Temnothorax recedens (Nylander, 1856)
 * Temnothorax rottenbergii Emery, 1870
 * Temnothorax sardous (Santschi, 1909)
 * Temnothorax saxatilis Schulz, Heinze & Pusch, 2007
 * Temnothorax sordidulus (Müller, 1923)
 * Temnothorax tergestinus (Finzi, 1928)
 * Temnothorax unifasciatus 	Latreille, 1798
 * Temnothorax vivianoi Schifani, Alicata & Prebus, 2022

Tetramorium

 * Tetramorium alpestre Steiner, Schlick-Steiner & Seifert, 2010
 * Tetramorium atratulum (Schenck, 1852)
 * Tetramorium brevicorne Bondroit, 1918
 * Tetramorium caespitum (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Tetramorium diomedeum 	Emery, 1908
 * Tetramorium fusciclava Consani & Zangheri, 1952
 * Tetramorium impurum 	Foerster, 1850
 * Tetramorium lucayanum Wheeler, W.M., 1905
 * Tetramorium meridionale 	Emery, 1870
 * Tetramorium moravicum Kratochvil, 1941
 * Tetramorium pelagium 	Poldi, 1995
 * Tetramorium punctatum Santschi, 1927
 * Tetramorium sanetrai Schulz & Csosz, 2007
 * Tetramorium semilaeve André, 1883
 * Tetramorium semilaeve italicum 	Menozzi, 1932

Uncertain species
The following species were described from Italy but their true identities are currently unknown.
 * Formica didyma Fabricius, 1782
 * Formica quadrinotata Losana, 1834