Pachycondyla (sensu Brown, 1973)

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), pp. 1-242 : 155-156

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5117556

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scientific name

Pachycondyla
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Species of Pachycondyla View in CoL View at ENA

Kempf (1961) came closest to providing a revision for true Pachycondyla . His revision and keys deal ostensibly with the Brazilian Pachycondyla fauna, but this includes all species we associate with the genus except P. lenkoi , which he described soon afterward, and also includes Neoponera magnifica and N. metanotalis , which Kempf included in Pachycondyla but which we have transferred to Neoponera .

P. constricticeps Mackay & Mackay, 2010 : Argentina

P. crassinoda (Latreille, 1802) View in CoL : Suriname

P. fuscoatra ( Roger, 1861) View in CoL : Colombia

P. harpax ( Fabricius, 1804) View in CoL : “South America”

P. impressa ( Roger, 1861) View in CoL : Colombia

P. inca Emery, 1901 View in CoL : Peru

P. lattkei Mackay & Mackay, 2010 : Venezuela

P. lenis Kempf, 1961 View in CoL : Brazil

P. lenkoi Kempf, 1962 View in CoL : Brazil

P. purpurascens Forel, 1899 : Costa Rica

P. striata Smith, F., 1858 View in CoL : Brazil

We have not managed to discern the proper taxonomic placement for a handful of ponerine species previously associated with Pachycondyla . In some cases this uncertainty stems from our failure to examine specimens of the species in question (especially when the original descriptions are ambiguous), while in other cases the morphological traits of the species leave doubts about its affinities. We leave these species as incertae sedis within Pachycondyla while acknowledging this placement is undoubtedly incorrect. Exact placement will require detailed examination of relevant material of these taxa.

Incertae sedis

P. curiosa Mackay & Mackay, 2010 : Brazil

P. jonesii Forel, 1891 View in CoL : Madagascar

P. solitaria Smith, F., 1860 View in CoL : Indonesia

P. unicolor Smith, F., 1860 : Indonesia

P. vidua Smith, F., 1857 : Borneo

P. vieirai Mackay & Mackay, 2010 : Ecuador

Fossil species (incertae sedis)

P. baltica Dlussky, 2002 : Baltic Amber

P. calcarea (Théobald, 1937) : France (Oligocene)

P. conservata Dlussky, 2009 : Rovno Amber

P. crawleyi (Donisthorpe, 1920) : Great Britain (Oligocene)

P. dubia (Théobald, 1937) : France (Oligocene)

P. eocenica Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012 : Germany (Eocene)

P. globiventris (Théobald, 1937) : France (Oligocene)

P. gracilicornis (Mayr, 1868) : Baltic Amber

P. labandeirai (Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002) : U.S.A. (Eocene)

P. lutzi Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012 : Germany (Eocene)

P. messeliana Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012 : Germany (Eocene)

P. minuta Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012 : Germany (Eocene)

P. minutansata (Zhang, 1989) : China (Miocene)

P. nubeculata (Zhang, 1989) : China (Miocene)

P. petiolosa Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012 : Germany (Eocene)

P. petrosa Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012 : Germany (Eocene)

P. succinea (Mayr, 1868) : Baltic Amber

P. tristis (Dlussky, 2009) : Bitterfeld Amber

Emery, C. (1901) Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponerines (Famille des Formicides). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 45, 32 - 54.

Fabricius, J. C. (1804) Systema Piezatorum secundum ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. C. Reichard, Brunswick, xiv + 15 - 439 + 30 pp.

Forel, A. (1891) Les Formicides. [part]. In: Grandidier, A. (Ed.), Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar. Volume XX. Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. Deuxieme partie (28 e fascicule). Hachette et Cie, Paris, v + 237 pp.

Forel, A. (1899) Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym, 3, 1 - 24.

Kempf, W. W. (1961) As formigas do genero Pachycondyla Fr. Smith no Brasil (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 10, 189 - 204.

Mackay, W. P. & Mackay, E. E. (2010) The systematics and biology of the New World ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Edwin Mellon Press, Lewiston, 642 pp.

Roger, J. (1861) Die Ponera-artigen Ameisen (Schluss). Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 5, 1 - 54.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

SubFamily

Ponerinae

Tribe

Ponerini