Records
(Map 40): Bulgaria ( Agosti and Collingwood 1987a , Atanassov and Dlusskij 1992 ); Central Predbalkan: Dermantsi vill. (Lukovit) [ Atanassov 1936( as Tetramorium caespitum semilaeve )]; Sofia Basin: Sofia [ Lapeva-Gjonova and Atanasova 2004 (as Tetramorium semilaeve ), Antonova 2005 , Antonova and Penev 2006 , 2008 ]; Plana Mt.: Kokalyane vill. ( Steiner et al. 2005 ); Belasitsa Mt.: at the foot of Belasitsa Mt. [ Atanassov 1964 (as Tetramorium caespitum semilaeve )]; Krupnik-Sandanski-Petrich Valley: Kresna [ Atanassov 1936 (as Tetramorium caespitum semilaeve )], around Mitino vill. [ Atanassov 1964 (as Tetramorium caespitum semilaeve )]; Sandanski ( Csősz and Markó 2004 ), Rupite ( Steiner et al. 2005 ); Eastern Rhodopi Mts: Byal Izvor vill. (Arda), Zhelezino vill. (Ivaylovgrad), between Odrintsi vill. and Svirachi vill. (Ivaylovgrad) [ Lapeva-Gjonova 2004a (as Tetramorium semilaeve )]; Northern Black Sea coast: Varna [ Csősz and Markó 2004 (as Tetramorium semilaeve )].
Notes:
This species, primarily described as a subspecies of Tetramorium caespitum , was raised to species rank by Röszler (1951) , but this name was then forgotten for many years, until Csősz and Markó (2004) redescribed it. The latter authors considered Tetramorium hungaricum as a Ponto-Caspian or Balkan element.
