Plagiolepis perperamus

This species is associated with humid areas overgrown by macchia or forests. Nests in soil, most often below rocks. Workers have been observed in the material collected by beating sheet from blackberry bushes. Colonies polygynous.

Distribution
This is an uncommon species but known from all Greek provinces (Borowiec et al., 2022).

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Greece, Iran, Turkey.

Nomenclature

 * . Plagiolepis perperamus Salata, Borowiec & Radchenko, 2018: 816, figs. 12-15 (w.) GREECE (Crete I., Lesbos I., Naxos I., Karpathos I., Kos I., Korfu I., Greek mainland), TURKEY, IRAN.
 * Junior synonym of atlantis: Seifert, 2020: 189.
 * Status as species: Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 48; Khalili-Moghadam et al., 2019: 171; Borowiec, Lebas et al., 2022: 8; Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 248 (redescription).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Khalili-Moghadam A., L. Borowiec, and A. Nemati. 2019. New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari Province of Iran with taxonomic comments. Polish Journal of Entomology 88 (2): 163–182.
 * Salata S., L. Borowiec, and A. G. Radchenko. 2018. Description of Plagiolepis perperamus, a New Species from East Mediterranean and Redescription of Plagiolepis pallescens Forel, 1889 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 68(4): 809-824.
 * Salata S., and L. Borowiec. 2018. Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Greek ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom Entomology 27: 1-51.
 * Salata S., and L. Borowiec. 2019. Preliminary division of not socially parasitic Greek Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) with a description of three new species. ZooKeys 877: 81-131.