Carebara oertzeni

This rarely encountered ant was collected in Albania (Purkart et al., 2019) at a locaction situated next to a canyon of the river Lengaricës, where rocky slopes are covered with small areas of forest-steppe. The specimens were retrieved from a sample of rotten wood, leaf litter and soil taken from a decaying tree, and the collected material was then heat extracted from the sample using Tullgren funnels. Proceratium melinum was also found in this same sample.

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

Nomenclature

 *  oertzeni. Oligomyrmex oertzeni Forel, 1886e: clxv, fig. 3 (q.) GREECE. Combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235. Current subspecies: nominal plus aeolia.