An updated list of Sardinia's ants (Hymenoptera Formicidae)

A critical list of ant species of Sardinia based on current literature, present taxonomy and the unpublished records of a faunal survey is here presented. In the most recent checklist of Italian ants published in 1995, 68 species and subspecies were reported for Sardinia. Although in the next twelve years there has not been considerable myrmecological activity, an updating is desirable. Three species have to be added as new to Sardinia: Cryptopone ochracea ochracea (Mayr, 1855), Myrmecina melonii Rigato, 1999 and Stenamma orousseti Casevitz-Weulersse, 1990. After a comparison of the material collected during the survey and data from current literature, a total of 70 species and subspecies of Formicidae are now known to occur in the island. The presence of some species, based on old and doubtful records, is discussed.