Oxyopomyrmex krueperi

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

Biology
Forel (1911) and Menozzi (1936) reported finding nests in sandy soil at a barren hill near Thessaloniki and on a path to Pigadia beach at Karpathos. Specimens were also collected in an agricultural field in Iran (Ghahari et al. 2011). Authors found a nest under a stone on the western slope of Psiloritis on Crete, at elevation 578 m a.s.l (above Fourfouras village). The area there is overgrown by a typical Mediterranean shrubland and olive trees. Other ant species collected at the site were: Aphaenogaster simonellii Emery, A. subterraneoides Emery, Camponotus aethiops (Latreille,), C. jaliensis Dalla Torre, C. kiesenwetteri (Roger), Lepisiota nigra (Dalla Torre), Messor orientalis (Emery), Strongylognathus silvestrii Menozzi, Temnothorax specularis (Emery), and Tetramorium cf. lucidulum.

Nomenclature

 *  krueperi. Oxyopomyrmex krueperi Forel, 1911d: 344 (w.) GREECE. Borowiec & Salata, 2013: 359 (q.). Senior synonym of lagoi: Salata & Borowiec, 2015b: 15.
 * lagoi. Oxyopomyrmex lagoi Menozzi, 1936d: 278, fig. 7 (w.) GREECE. Junior synonym of krueperi: Salata & Borowiec, 2015b: 15.