Dolichoderinae

Kiran, Kadrï & Karaman, Celal, 2012, First annotated checklist of the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Zootaxa 3548, pp. 1-38 : 4-5

Subfamily Dolichoderinae Forel

Bothriomyrmex adriacus subsp. anatolicus Emery, 1925 : [16] ( Emery 1925c). as Bothriomyrmex meridionalis subsp. atlantis Forel, 1894 : [16] ( Forel 1911—misidentification). as Bothriomyrmex atlantis : [16] ( Emery 1913).

Comments: See the comments for Bothriomyrmex meridionalis subsp. atlantis in species excluded from the list of Turkish ants.

Bothriomyrmex communistus Santschi, 1919

as Bothriomyrmex communista : [77] ( Aktaç 1976; 1978); [61], [74], [76] ( Aktaç 1988). as Bothriomyrmex adriacus Santschi, 1922 : Thrace ( Aras & Aktaç 1990; Aktaç et al. 1994).

Bothriomyrmex corsicus Santschi, 1923 : [1], [4] (Aktaç et al. 1994); [12] (Kiran & Aktaç 2006). as Bothriomyrmex meridionalis (Roger, 1863) : [12] (Kiran & Aktaç 2006); [4] (Lapeva-Gjonova & Kiran 2012) (misidentifications).

Comments: See the comments for B. meridionalis in species excluded from the list of Turkish ants.

Dolichoderus quadripunctatus (Linnaeus, 1771) : [3] ( Forel 1911); [10] ( Schkaff 1924); Thrace ( Agosti & Collingwood 1987; Radchenko 2007); [6], [18], [19], [23] ( Ülgentürk 2001); [11], [16] (Kiran & Aktaç 2006); [4] (Lapeva-Gjonova & Kiran 2012).

as Hypoclinea quadripunctata: Thrace (Çamlıtepe & Aktaç 1987; Aras & Aktaç 1990; Aktaç et al. 1994); [2] ( Aras & Aktaç 1992).

Liometopum microcephalum (Panzer, 1798) : Asia Minor ( André 1882b); [77] ( Aktaç 1976); [6] (Aktaç & Çamlıtepe 1987); [1] ( Aras & Aktaç 1987); Thrace (Çamlıtepe & Aktaç 1987; Aras & Aktaç 1990; Aktaç et al. 1994; Radchenko 2007); [12] (Kiran & Aktaç 2006); [4] (Lapeva-Gjonova & Kiran 2012).

Tapinoma erraticum (Latreille, 1798) : [12] ( Emery 1897); [16] ( Forel 1906; 1911); [27] ( Santschi 1921); [10] ( Schkaff 1924); [11], [20], [27], [53], [76] ( Donisthorpe 1950a); [3], [10] ( Baroni Urbani 1964); [77] ( Aktaç 1976; 1978); Thrace ( Agosti & Collingwood 1987; Çamlıtepe & Aktaç 1987; Aras & Aktaç 1990; Aktaç et al. 1994; Radchenko 2007); [6] (Aktaç & Çamlıtepe 1987); [1] ( Aras & Aktaç 1987); [61], [67], [71], [74], [75], [76], [81] ( Aktaç 1988); [2] ( Aras & Aktaç 1992); [27] ( Ülgentürk 2001; Özdemir et al. 2008); [11], [12], [16], [21] (Kiran & Aktaç 2006); [4] (Lapeva-Gjonova & Kiran 2012).

Tapinoma festae Emery, 1925 : [20] ( Lush 2009).

Comments: Emery (1925e) reported this species from Rhodes Island in Greece. After this record, no researchers found this species until Lush (2009) who recorded the species from southern Turkey. However, T. festae is very similar to T. subboreale (= T. ambiguum ), which has a very large distribution in the western Palaearctic, from Spain to Ukraine. It is hard to distinguish these two species from each other; they differ only in the male genitalia. In addition, T. festae is known only from females and males. Lush’s record is based on workers, and he did not comment on the differentiation between T. festae and T. subboreale . Therefore, the record of T. festae from Turkey needs confirmation.

Tapinoma nigerrimum (Nylander, 1856) : [3] ( Baroni Urbani 1964); Thrace ( Aras & Aktaç 1990; Aktaç et al. 1994; Radchenko 2007); [2] ( Aras & Aktaç 1992;1994).

as Tapinoma erraticum var. nigerrimum : [45] ( Kohl 1905); [3] ( Forel 1911).

as Tapinoma erraticum subsp. nigerrimum : [10] ( Schkaff 1924).

Comments: Bolton (2012) lists Formica nigerrima Nylander, 1856 as an unresolved junior primary homonym of Formica nigerrima Christ, 1791 (now in Lasius ). On the other hand, Seifert (2012a) lists T. nigerrimum as a valid species.

Tapinoma subboreale Seifert, 2012

as Tapinoma madeirense Forel, 1895 : [1] (Kiran & Karaman 2012); [4] (Lapeva-Gjonova & Kiran 2012) (misidentifications).

Comments: Wetterer et al. (2007) considered the name T. ambiguum Emery, 1925 as a junior synonym of T. madeirense Forel, 1895 . More recently Seifert (2012a) partly confirmed this synonymy and designated a lectotype of T. ambiguum . Simultaneously, he restricted distribution of T. madeirense to Madeira and southern France, and described a new species, T. subboreale , that include all other northern populations of the former T. ambiguum . Consequently, the records T. madeirense (Kiran & Karaman 2012; Lapeva-Gjonova & Kiran 2012) from Turkey belong to T. subboreale (a new species for the Turkish ant fauna), and T. madeirense is excluded from the list of Turkish ants.

Tapinoma simrothi Krausse, 1911 : Asia Minor ( Collingwood 1961).