Additions to the Ant Fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Author Kiran, Kadri Author Karaman, Celal Trakya University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, Balkan Campus, Edirne (Turkey) kadrikiran @ trakya. edu. tr (corresponding author) text Zoosystema 2020 2020-06-24 42 18 285 329 journal article 21596 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a18 081ac4b3-8ae0-45e9-a851-8889a7654463 1638-9387 3922267 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A9F490C6-E406-45CC-B5D3-B949712E2DEB Messor hellenius Agosti & Collingwood, 1987 ** Messor hellenius Agosti & Collingwood, 1987: 54 . MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Turkey • 6☿ ; Aydın , Didim ; 37°22’N , 27°15’E ; 20.VIII.2014 ; C. Karaman leg.; EMTU 14 /0117l • 1 ☿ ; Balıkesir , Ayvalık , Sarımsaklı ; 39°16’N , 26°38’E ; 01.VIII.2014 ; C. Karaman leg.; EMTU 14 /0128d • 8 ☿ ; Çanakkale , Gelibolu , Kalealtı Vill. ; 40°41’211”N, 26°47’339”E; 92 m ; 18. V .2015 ; C. Karaman leg.; EMTU 15 /0039e • 3 ☿ ; İzmir , Selçuk , Efes ; 37°56’N , 27°20’E ; 17.VIII.2014 ; C. Karaman leg.; EMTU 14 /0116p • 25 ☿ ; Tekirdağ , Şarköy , İğdebağları ; 40°38’111”N, 27°08’577”E; 95 m ; 16. V .2015 ; C. Karaman leg.; EMTU 15 /0020 • 3☿ ; same collection data as for preceding; C. Karaman leg.; EMTU 15 /0021 . DISTRIBUTION IN TURKEY . — Thrace.First record from Asia continent.