Camponotus ligniperdus (Latreille, 1802)

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Genus: Camponotus

Characterisation

Trogloxene

Distribution

Europe, Turkey

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Spilaio Thalassinou, Lindberg 1955b, Beron et al. 2011, Beron 2016
  Region: Anatoliki Makedonia-Thraki / Regional unit: Xanthi / Municipality: Topeiros / Closest settlement: Galani

IUCN Red List

NE - Not Evaluated

Greece's Red Data Book

NE - Not Evaluated

Protection status

• There is no species-specific legal framework for protection.

Check Databases

Fauna Europea

GBIF

PESI

NCBI

Species references

• Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
• Beron, P., Petrov, B. & Stoev, P. 2011. The invertebrate cave fauna of the Western Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). Pages 583-662 in Beron P. (ed.) Biodiversity of Bulgaria. 4. Biodiversity of Western Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece) II. Pensoft & Nat. Mus. Natur. Hist. Sofia,
• Lindberg, K. 1955. Cyclopides (Crustacés copépodes) de la Grèce II. Fragm. Balc., Skopje, 1 (23): 189-195.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2025. Camponotus ligniperdus (Latreille, 1802). In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 28.03.2018, Accessed 17.10.2025