New and little-known ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Bulgaria Author Lapeva-Gjonova, Albena https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0811-0768 Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria gjonova@gmail.com Author Borowiec, Lech https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5668-6855 University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland text Biodiversity Data Journal 2022 2022-05-09 10 83658 83658 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e83658 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e83658 1314-2828-10-e83658 C33F801C97145BC88E468726BE249165 Messor hellenius Agosti & Collingwood, 1987 Distribution New records: Ograzhden Mt.: Drenovo vill., 06.04.2010, 7 w., leg. ALG; Churilovo vill., 10.09.2021, 1 q., 3 w., leg. ALG; East Rhodopes: Meden buk vill., 22.02.2012, 3 w., leg. ALG (Fig. 1 ); Dolna Kula vill., 19.04.2012, 1 q., 3 w.; same place, 23.04.2021, 1 q., 15 w., leg. ALG; North Black Sea coast, Varna, Morska Gradina Park, 20.07.2017, 10 w., leg. ALG; Struma Valley, Lebnitsa vill., 06.08.2019, 13 w., leg. ALG (Fig. 2 ); Burgas District, Tranak vill., 01.01.2021, 5 w., leg. M. Mohamed; Pirin Mt., Stara Kresna vill., 11.05.2021, 12 w., leg. ALG; Southern Black Sea coast: Chernomorets, 20.07.2006, 5 w., leg. and det. L. Borowiec (DBET); Primorsko, 27.05.2011, 6 w., leg. ALG; Maslen nos cape, 04.06.2021, 20 w., leg. ALG. Detailed occurrence data: Lapeva-Gjonova and Borowiec (2022) . Notes First record for Bulgaria. This species is known from Greece, the western coast of Anatolia and the European part of Turkey ( Salata and Borowiec 2019a , Kiran and Karaman 2020 ). Borowiec and Salata (2018) suggested that the previous records of M. capitatus (Latreille, 1798) from eastern parts of the Balkan Peninsula concern M. hellenius . In this regard, it is very likely that the data on M. capitatus from the northern Black Sea coast ( Marko and Csosz 2002 ) refer to M. hellenius .