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Notes on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Thassos Island, Greece

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  • 1. University of Wrocław, Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, Myrmecological Laboratory, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland, e-mail: lech.borowiec@uwr.edu.pl, ORCID 0000-0001-5668-6855
  • 2. University of Wrocław, Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, Myrmecological Laboratory, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland, e-mail: sebastian.salata@ uwr.edu.pl, ORCID 0000-0003-0811-2309

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A list of 52 ant species and 6 morphospecies collected recently from 36 sampling sites on Thassos island is given. Aphaenogaster festae Emery, Aphaenogaster subterraneoides Emery, and Myrmoxenus gordiagini Ruzsky are recorded from Greek Macedonia for the first time.

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