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 Proformica striaticeps ( Forel, 1911 ) Formica nasuta var. striaticeps Forel, 1911: 352 . MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Turkey • 1☿ ; Antalya , Serik ; 36°55’N , 31°06’E ; 01. VI .2014 ; C. Karaman leg.; EMTU 14 /0121g • 8 ☿ ; Karabük , Safranbolu ; 41°15’N , 32°40’E ; 287 m ; 07. V .2005 ; K. Kiran leg.; EMTU 05 /0003e • 1 ☿ ; same collection data as for preceding; K. Kiran leg.; EMTU 05 /0006a • 2 ☿ ; same collection data as for preceding; K. Kiran leg.; EMTU 05 /0020d • 2 ☿ ; Manisa , Demirci , Bardakçı Vill. ; 39°07’882”N , 28°28’446”E ; 1144 m ; 19.VIII.2014 ; C. Karaman leg.; EMTU 08 /2171c • 1 ☿ ; Gölmarmara, Musalar Vill.; 38°41’037”N , 28°08’748”E ; 653 m ; 09.VIII.2014 ; C. Karaman leg.; EMTU 07 /2109d • 1☿ ; Yozgat , Kuşçu Vill. ; 39°39’15”N , 34°43’14”E ; 1202 m ; 29. V .2007 ; A. Beyarslan leg.; EMTU 07 /0086. DISTRIBUTION IN TURKEY . — Artvin , Isparta , Sivas . REMARKS Collingwood & Heatwole (2000) reported that the general distribution of P.striaticeps covers Turkey . Some other researchers also mentioned that the general distribution of the species included Turkey ( Borowiec & Salata 2012 ; Bračko et al. 2014 ). However, no physical record has been given so far within any study in the country till Karaman et al. (2017) . Although P. nasuta ( Nylander, 1856 ) was recorded from several localities in Turkey , recent studies showed that P. nasuta is distributed in the western part of Mediterranea ( Borowiec 2014 ; Bračko et al. 2014 ; Galkowski et al. 2017 ). Therefore, we suggest here to exclude Turkey from the distributional range of P. nasuta and all previously determined P. nasuta material should refer P. striaticeps .