Genus Vol. 23(4): 461-563 Wrocław, 28 XII 2012 Ants of Greece – checklist, comments and new faunistic data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Lech Borowiec 1 & SeBaStian SaLata 2 Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego, 63/77, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland, e-mail: 1 cassidae@biol.uni.wroc.pl, 2 rubisco198@gmail.com aBStract. A list of 291 ant species recorded from Greece are given but approximately 15% of taxa need conirmation due to recent studies on European ants and reinterpretation of several taxa. The following 17 species are recorded from Greece for the irst time: Camponotus sannini tohmé & tohmé, Crematogaster jehovae ForeL, Formica bruni Kutter, Lasius jensi SeiFert, Lasius nitidigaster SeiFert, Lepisiota dolabellae (ForeL), Myrmica lonae Finzi, Myrmica tulinae eLmeS, radchenKo & aKtaç, Temnothorax lavicornis (emery), Temnothorax sordidulus (müLLer), Temnothorax turcicus (SantSchi), Tetramorium hungaricum röSzLer, and ive species not attributed to a named species: Camponotus cf. lateralis sp. 1, Camponotus cf. lateralis sp. 2, Lepisiota cf. melas sp. 1, Lepisiota cf. syriaca sp. 1, and Tetramorium cf. caespitum sp. 1. Camponotus candiotes is recorded as new species to Croatia. New faunistic data for 132 other species are given. Key words: entomology, zoogeography, catalogue, ants, Greece. INTroDUCTIoN The history of knowledge of Greek ants goes back to the early 19th century (BruLLé 1833) but due to the complicated history of Greece, for many years the ant fauna of the country was studied less intensively and by foreign entomologists. No regional monograph was published and the irst key concerning also Greek fauna and the irst checklist were papers by agoSti and coLLingwood (1987 a, b). Both papers stimulated recent workers to study ants of the Balkan region but data from Greece were published mostly in small contributions or in revisions of particular taxa. LegaKiS (2011) was the irst to compile a checklist of Greek ants. Although the list was published recently, it did not include results from several importants revisions of some taxa (see discussion chapter). The list is also dificult to use, as the author placed both valid species names