Published April 18, 2019 | Version v1
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Comments to distribution of several Greek Tetramorium Mayr, 1855 species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

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  • 1. Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bukowska 19, 60-809 Poznań, Poland
  • 2. Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland

Description

Based on studied material three Tetramorium species are recorded from Greece for the first time: Tetramorium indocile Santschi, 1927, Tetramorium staerckei Kratochvíl, Novák & Snoflák, 1944 and Tetramorium sulcinode Santschi, 1927. Additionally, distribution records of recently revised members of the Tetramorium caespitum group are reexamined and assigned to proper taxa. Tetramorium rhodium Emery, 1922 is recorded from the East Aegean Islands for the first time.

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