Pachycondyla
| Pachycondyla | |
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| P. harpax worker | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Pachycondyla Smith, 1858 |
| Type species | |
Latreille, 1802
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| Diversity[1] | |
| 37 species | |
Pachycondyla is a ponerine genus of ants found in the Neotropics.
Distribution[]
Pachycondyla is currently distributed from southern United States to northern Argentina,[1] but some fossil species (e.g. P. eocenica and P. lutzi) are found in Europe.
Species[]
The genus formerly contained hundreds of species, most of them belonging to at the time junior synonyms of Pachycondyla. While revising the ponerines, Schmidt & Shattuck (2014) revived many of the former synonyms, leaving only eleven species in Pachycondyla. They were not able to place some species with certainty, and left more than twenty species incertae sedis in Pachycondyla, acknowledging that "this placement is undoubtedly incorrect".[1]
- Mackay & Mackay, 2010
- (Latreille, 1802)
- (Roger, 1861)
- Pachycondyla harpax (Fabricius, 1804)
- (Roger, 1861)
- Emery, 1901
- Mackay & Mackay, 2010
- Kempf, 1961
- Kempf, 1962
- Forel, 1899
- Smith, F., 1858
incertae sedis[]
P. eocenica holotype
- Mackay & Mackay, 2010
- Forel, 1891
- Smith, F., 1860
- Smith, F., 1860
- Smith, F., 1857
- Mackay & Mackay, 2010
- †Pachycondyla aberrans Dlussky, Rasnitsyn, & Perfilieva, 2015[2]
- † Dlussky, 2002
- † (Théobald, 1937)
- † Dlussky, 2009
- † (Donisthorpe, 1920)
- † (Théobald, 1937)
- †Pachycondyla eocenica Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
- † (Théobald, 1937)
- † (Mayr, 1868)
- † (Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002)
P. parvula holotype - †Pachycondyla lutzi Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
- †Pachycondyla? messeliana Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
- † (Zhang, 1989)
- † (Zhang, 1989)
- †Pachycondyla oligocenica Dlussky, Rasnitsyn, & Perfilieva, 2015[2]
- †Pachycondyla parvula Dlussky, Rasnitsyn, & Perfilieva, 2015[2]
- †Pachycondyla petiolosa Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
- †Pachycondyla petrosa Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
- †Pachycondyla succinea (Mayr, 1868)
- † (Dlussky, 2009)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. (2014). "The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior". Zootaxa. 3817 (1): 1–242. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1. PMID 24943802.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Dlussky, G. M.; Rasnitsyn, A. P.; Perfilieva, K. S. (2015). "The ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya (late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian far east)". Caucasian Entomological Bulletin. 11 (1): 131–152. doi:10.23885/1814-3326-2015-11-1-131-152.
External links[]
Media related to Pachycondyla at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Pachycondyla at Wikispecies
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Categories:
- Ponerinae
- Ant genera
- Hymenoptera of North America
- Hymenoptera of South America
- Taxa named by Frederick Smith (entomologist)
- Ponerinae stubs