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Hymenoptera: Formicidae) PL ISBN 978-83-61764-49-6 / PL ISSN 0867-1710 P O L I S H T A X O N O M I C A L S O C I E T Y INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE TAXONOMY GenusSpecial issue - Monograph Lech Borowiec Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) VOL. XXV, FASC.1-2 2014 BIOLOGICA SILESIAE BIOLOGICA BS SILESIAE wrocŁaw poland Editorial board: lech Borowiec (Head Editor), Marek l. Borowiec, rafał ruta, Jolanta Świętojańska, Jerzy Turzański. Subscription price: institutional - 75 U.S. dollars or 65 € per 2013/2014, personal - 40 U.S. dollars or 30 €; single fascicles - 20 U.S. dollars or 15 € each. Subscription orders should be addressed to polish Taxonomical Society, Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335 wrocław, poland. Manuscript submission: Genus editor, department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, przybysze- wskiego 63/77, 51-148 wrocław, Poland, e-mail: [email protected]. The fascicle is available in pdF format: www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/genus.html. International advisory board: Dr. Louis DEHARVENG - Museum national d’Histoire naturelle, departement Systématique et Evolution, Bat. Entomologie, 45 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris (France) Dr. David G. FURTH - Entomology, Mrc 165, nationa1 Museum of natural History, Smithsonian Institu- tion, p. o. Box 37012, washington, d. c. 20013-7012, USa Dr. Patrick GROOTAERT - Entomology, royal Belgian Institute ofnatural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium Dr. Wolfgang SCHAWALLER - Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany cover photo: Aphaenogaster cecconii Emery (photo l. Borowiec) Title sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Science, warsaw (Tytuł dofinansowany przez Ministerstwon auki i Szkolnictwa wyższego, warszawa) (nakład 300 egz.) PL ISBN 978-83-61764-49-6 / PL ISSN 0867-1710 © copyright by Biologica Silesiae, wrocław 2014 Genus - Monograph Vol. 25(1-2): 1-340 Wrocław, 15 VII 2014 Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) LECH BOROWIEC Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego, 63/77, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland, e-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT: Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions is given with country data, list of synonyms, and comments. From the area 1261 species are rocorded. All infraspecific names, including subspecies names, are treated as synonyms although in future studies many of them can be raised to species level. Table with distribution of ant species in major regions of Europe and the Mediterranean Subregion is presented. From Europe 622 species have been recorded, from North Africa 441, Middle East 256, Turkey and transcaucasian countries 358, Iran 165, and Arabian Peninsula 304. Key words: entomology, zoogeography, catalogue, Formicidae, Europe, Mediterranean Basin, Middle East, Arabian Peninsula. INTroDUCTIoN Last world catalogue of ants (Bolton et al. 2006) lists 11 477 extanct valid species divided into 287 genera, but total nominal species level taxa includes 19 908 names (including unavailable names, unresolved homonyms, junior synonyms and species icertae sedis). recent AntWeb statistics noted 12 955 valid species (2 296 synonyms, 220 homonyms, 94 unidentifiable, 112 unavailable, 4 excluded from Formicidae, 4 037 original combinations), 2 092 valid subspecies (2 241 synonyms, 101 homonyms, 5 unidentifiable, 777 unavailable, 889 original combinations) - (www.antweb.org). Ants of Europe and Mediterranean Basin are poorly studied. Although the history of investigation of ants of the area is very long, recent revisions and good identifica- tion keys are available for only few genera. regional keys and monographs include mostly regions of Central and North Europe with no more than 200 properly redescribed species. As a result, identification of material from several Mediterranean countries, especially from the eastern part of the basin and from northern Africa, is a difficult and often unsuccessful procedure. The large numbers of described infraspecific taxa (many of them valid nomenclaturally), poorly studied species variability and complicate genetic structure of many ants are additional difficulties. LECH BoroWIEC Another problem is a lack of a recent catalogue for the region. Although a world catalogue of ants was published quite recently - paper version (Bolton 1995) and CD version (Bolton et al. 2006) - it contains no detailed country records and a somewhat perspicuous system of citations of infraspecific and unavailable names. The area of the present catalogue comprises Europe in its geographical border and the Mediterranean Basin in the broad sense (including countries of North Africa in their political borders and all countries of the Middle East). Because the south-eastern border of the area is unclear some transitional regions were included (transcaucasian countries, whole Arabian Peninsula and Iran). It increases a number of species in many Ethiopian and Central Asiatic elements but is a good example illustrating a high diversity of the ant fauna in border regions of Europe and Mediterranean area and can stimulate faunistic investigations. Distribution is noted mostly to the country level. Distribution within Mediterranean countries with large insular areas is noted for mainland and large isles or archipelagos separately. The following sources were used to compile country data: Algeria (Cagni- ant 1968 c, 1970 a, b), Andorra (Bernadou et al. 2013), Austria (Steiner et al. 2002), Belgium (Dekoninck et al. 2006, Boer 2010), Bosnia and Hercegovina (Vesnič 2011), Britain (Skinner & Allen 1996), Bulgaria (Lapeva-Gjonova et al. 2010), Canary Is- lands (Barquin 1981, Hohmann et al. 1993), Croatia (Bračko 2006), Czech republic (Werner & Wiezik 2007), Egypt (Taylor 2010), Finland (Paukkunen 2010), France (Casevitz-Weulerrse & Galkowski 2009), Germany (Seifert 2007), Georgia (Gratiashvili & Barjadze 2008), Greece (Legakis 2011, Borowiec & Salata 2012, 2013), Hungary (Csösz et al. 2011), Iran (Paknia et al. 2008), Ireland (Niechoj 2011), Israel (Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch 2010), Italy (Baroni Urbani 1971 c, Poldi et al. 1995), Luxembourg (Boer 2010), Macedonia (Karaman 2009, Bračko et al. 2013), Madeira (Wetterer et al. 2007), Montenegro (Petrov 2006, Karaman 2011), Morocco (Cagniant 2006), Netherlands (Boer et al. 2003, Boer 2010), Poland (Czechowski et al. 2012), romania (Markó et al. 2006, Czekes et al. 2013), Norway (Kvamme & Wetås 2010), Portugal (Salgueiro 2002), Saudi Arabia (Collingwood & Agosti 1996), Serbia (Petrov 2006), Slovakia (Werner & Wiezik 2007), Slovenia (Bračko 2007), Spain (Gómez & Espadaler 2007), Sweden (L. o. Högmo after Czechowski et al. 2012), Turkey (Kiran & Karaman 2012), Ukraine (Czechowski et al. 2012), United Arab Emirates (Collingwood et al. 2011), Yemen (Collingwood & Agosti 1996, Collingwood & van Harten 2001, 2005) supplemented by AntWeb (www.antweb.org), Fauna Europea (http://www.faunaeur. org/) and other internet resources. Material preserved in the collection of the Depart- ment of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland has also been used. Species are arranged alphabetically with no attribution to the subfamily. List of genera with subfamily placement is presented below. Subgenera are noted only in well reviewed and speciose groups (e.g. Camponotus, Formica, Lasius). All infraspecific names, including subspecies names, are treated as synonyms although in future studies many of them can be raised to species level. CataloGUE oF ANTS oF EUroPE AND ADjACENT rEGIoNS LIST oF GENErA AND THEIr subfamily PLACEMENT Aenictinae Aenictus Shuckard, 1840 a: 266 Amblyoponinae Stigmatomma roger, 1859: 250 Cerapachyinae Cerapachys Smith, 1857 a: 74 Dolichoderinae Bothriomyrmex Emery, 1869 b: 117 Dolichoderus Lund, 1831: 130 Iridomyrmex Mayr, 1862: 653 Linepithema Mayr, 1866 a: 496 Liometopum Mayr, 1861: 38 Tapinoma Förster, 1850 a: 43 Technomyrmex Mayr, 1872: 147 Dorylinae Dorylus Fabricius, 1793: 365 Formicinae Acropyga roger, 1862: 242 Anoplolepis Santschi, 1914 b: 123 Bajcaridris Agosti, 1994 b: 99 Brachymyrmex Mayr, 1868 b: 163 Camponotus Mayr, 1861: 35 Cataglyphis Förster, 1850 b: 493 Formica Linnaeus, 1758: 579 Iberoformica Tinaut, 1990: 282 Lasius Fabricius, 1804: 415 Lepisiota Santschi, 1926 d: 15 Nylanderia Emery, 1906 c: 133 Paratrechina Motschoulsky, 1863: 13 Plagiolepis Mayr, 1861: 42 Polyergus Latreille, 1804: 179 Polyrhachis Smith, 1857 a: 58 Prenolepis Mayr, 1861: 52 Proformica ruzsky, 1902 d: 13 Rossomyrmex Arnoldi, 1928 c: 299 Tapinolepis Emery, 1925 b: 18 Leptanillinae Leptanilla Emery, 1870: 196 Yavnella Kugler, 1987: 52 Myrmicinae Anergates Forel, 1874: 67 LECH BoroWIEC Aphaenogaster Mayr, 1853 a: 107 Bondroitia Forel, 1911 b: 300 Cardiocondyla Emery, 1869 a: 20 Carebara Westwood, 1840: 86 Chalepoxenus Menozzi, 1923: 257 Crematogaster Lund, 1831: 132 Dicroaspis Emery, 1908 g: 184 Doronomyrmex Kutter, 1945: 485 Formicoxenus Mayr, 1855: 413 Goniomma Emery, 1895: 298 Harpagoxenus Forel, 1893: 167 Leptothorax Mayr, 1855: 431 Lophomyrmex Emery, 1892 b: 114 Manica jurine, 1807: 276 Melissotarsus Emery, 1877 b: 378 Messor Forel, 1890 a: 68 Monomorium Mayr, 1855: 452 Myrmecina Curtis, 1829: 265 Myrmica Latreille, 1804: 179 Myrmoxenus ruzsky, 1902 b: 474 Nesomyrmex Wheeler, 1910 b: 259 Oxyopomyrmex André, 1881 c: 72 Phacota roger, 1862: 260 Pheidole Westwood, 1839: 219 Pyramica roger, 1862: 251 Rhoptromyrmex Mayr, 1901: 18 Solenopsis Westwood,
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