New and little-known ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Bulgaria

Albena Lapeva-Gjonova; Lech Borowiec

doi:10.15468/mngbzp

New and little-known ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Bulgaria

Citation

Lapeva-Gjonova A, Borowiec L (2022). New and little-known ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Bulgaria. Biodiversity Data Journal. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/mngbzp accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-13.

Description

The current study presents data on 11 ant species recorded for the first time in Bulgaria (Messor hellenius Agosti & Collingwood, 1987, M. mcarthuri Steiner et al., 2018, Crematogaster ionia Forel, 1911, Monomorium monomorium Bolton, 1987, Temnothorax aeolius (Forel, 1911), T. cf. exilis (form darii Forel, 1911), T. finzii (Menozzi, 1925), T. rogeri Emery, 1869, Tetramorium cf. punicum, Plagiolepis xene Stärcke, 1936 and Lasius reginae Faber, 1967, as well as new locality data on 15 rarely found species. Six of the species have so far been known only from a single locality in Bulgaria. The dataset of all records presented in this work was published separately through Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Taxonomic Coverages

Formicidae
common name: ants rank: family

Geographic Coverages

Bulgaria

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Albena Lapeva-Gjonova
originator
position: Assoc. Prof.
Sofia University
Sofia
BG
email: gjonova@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0811-0768

Lech Borowiec
originator
position: Prof.
University of Wroclaw
Wroclaw
PL
email: lech.borowiec@uwr.edu.pl
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5668-6855

Albena Lapeva-Gjonova
metadata author
position: Assoc. Prof.
Sofia University
Sofia
BG
email: gjonova@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0811-0768

Albena Lapeva-Gjonova
author
position: Assoc. Prof.
Sofia University
Sofia
BG
email: gjonova@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0811-0768

Lech Borowiec
author
position: Prof.
University of Wroclaw
Wroclaw
PL
email: lech.borowiec@uwr.edu.pl
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5668-6855

Albena Lapeva-Gjonova
administrative point of contact
position: Assoc. Prof.
Sofia University
Sofia
BG
email: gjonova@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0811-0768