Unicoloniality and lack of swarming flights reported from Retz, Austria (Schlick-Steiner et al., 2005). In Greece, Messor structor appears to be mountain species, it was collected in mountain habitats between 535 and 1340 m a.s.l., mostly…
This is a common European species distributed from Germany to Italy and from Spain to southern Russia. It can also be found in north-west Africa, Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Near East, Iran, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan (Radchenko 1997c).