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Pachycondyla

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Tribe
  
Ponerini

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Rank
  
Genus

Family
  
Formicidae

Scientific name
  
Pachycondyla

Higher classification
  
Ponerini

Order
  
Hymenopterans


Lower classifications
  
Austroponera castanea, Austroponera castaneicolor

Pachycondyla apicalis new colony gregor poeth


Pachycondyla is a ponerine genus of ants found in the Neotropics.

Contents

Pseudoneoponera rufipes ex pachycondyla rufipes


Distribution

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Pachycondyla is currently distributed from southern United States to northern Argentina, 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".

Pachycondyla Pachycondyla Alex Wild Photography

  • Pachycondyla constricticeps Mackay & Mackay, 2010
  • Pachycondyla crassinoda (Latreille, 1802)
  • Pachycondyla fuscoatra (Roger, 1861)
  • Pachycondyla harpax (Fabricius, 1804)
  • Pachycondyla impressa (Roger, 1861)
  • Pachycondyla inca Emery, 1901
  • Pachycondyla lattkei Mackay & Mackay, 2010
  • Pachycondyla lenis Kempf, 1961
  • Pachycondyla lenkoi Kempf, 1962
  • Pachycondyla purpurascens Forel, 1899
  • Pachycondyla striata Smith, F., 1858

    • incertae sedis

    Pachycondyla Pachycondyla Alex Wild Photography

  • Pachycondyla curiosa Mackay & Mackay, 2010
  • Pachycondyla jonesii Forel, 1891
  • Pachycondyla solitaria Smith, F., 1860
  • Pachycondyla unicolor Smith, F., 1860
  • Pachycondyla vidua Smith, F., 1857
  • Pachycondyla vieirai Mackay & Mackay, 2010
  • †Pachycondyla aberrans Dlussky, Rasnitsyn, & Perfilieva, 2015
  • †Pachycondyla baltica Dlussky, 2002
  • †Pachycondyla calcarea (Théobald, 1937)
  • †Pachycondyla conservata Dlussky, 2009
  • †Pachycondyla crawleyi (Donisthorpe, 1920)
  • †Pachycondyla dubia (Théobald, 1937)
  • †Pachycondyla eocenica Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
  • †Pachycondyla globiventris (Théobald, 1937)
  • †Pachycondyla gracilicornis (Mayr, 1868)
  • †Pachycondyla labandeirai (Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002)
  • †Pachycondyla lutzi Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
  • †Pachycondyla? messeliana Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
  • †Pachycondyla minutansata (Zhang, 1989)
  • †Pachycondyla nubeculata (Zhang, 1989)
  • †Pachycondyla oligocenica Dlussky, Rasnitsyn, & Perfilieva, 2015
  • †Pachycondyla parvula Dlussky, Rasnitsyn, & Perfilieva, 2015
  • †Pachycondyla petiolosa Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
  • †Pachycondyla petrosa Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
  • †Pachycondyla succinea (Mayr, 1868)
  • †Pachycondyla tristis (Dlussky, 2009)

    • References

    Pachycondyla Wikipedia
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