Based on material collected between the years 1988-2015 numerous new province and
country records of ants from Turkey are given. A total of 143 ant species were listed of which …

Abstract The West-Palaearctic Colobopsis ant populations have long been considered a
single species (Colobopsis truncata). We studied the diversity of this species by employing a …

Wide ranging surveys of the ant fauna of Iran have enabled us to add a further 30 named
species to the country list. A review of almost all the published literature and of photographs …

Materials and Methods We sampled ants in spring 2014 and in summer 2015 from the sites
in different parts of Greek Thrace. The main method, applied at all sites, was direct sampling …

A new species of Crematogaster Lund, 1831, Crematogaster gypsophila Mohseni, sp. nov.,
is described based on museum and worker specimens from Iran collected in 2022 …

Ants are a major part of the ecosystem as they assist in the decomposition process and
improve soil quality. In this study the species richness and biodiversity of these arthropods …

Ants are a major part of the ecosystem as they assist in the decomposition process and
improve soil quality. They are a great component of animal biomass and act as ecosystem …

Abstract Introduction: The study of Queen and male ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Iran
is very limited and scattered in comparison with the ants of the world. Materials & Methods …

Background Evaluation of insect succession patterns is a scientific method to estimate the
time elapsed since death. Several studies have shown that ante-mortem intake of opioids …

This paper deals with faunistic data on the Formicidae (Hymenoptera) from north and
northwestern Iran. Totally 15 species in 10 genera were collected and identified, which four …