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Notes on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from three northern Aegean islands – Lemnos, Samothraki and Thasos

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  • 1. University of Wrocław, Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland, ,lech.borowiec@uwr.edu.pl
  • 2. 2 impasse del Ribas, F-66680, Canohes, France, cllebas@free.fr
  • 3. University of Wrocław, Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland, sebastian.salata@ uwr.edu.pl

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We provide a list of 27 ant species from Lemnos (26 new to the island), 50 species from Samothraki (44 new to the island), and additional data of 8 species new to Thasos. Tapinoma magnum Mayr collected on Thasos is the first certain record from Greece. Camponotus baldaccii Emery, Myrmica rubra (Linnaeus), Temnothorax angustifrons Csösz, Heinze & Mikó, Temnothorax brackoi Salata & Borowiec, Temnothorax smyrnensis (Forel), Tetramorium staerckei Kratochvil, and Trichomyrmex perplexus (Radchenko) are new to Thrace.

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