Pachycondyla
{{Short description|Genus of ants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|47|0|Lutetian-Present}}
| image = Pachycondyla harpax casent0178183 profile 1.jpg
| image_caption = Pachycondyla harpax worker
| display_parents = 2
| taxon = Pachycondyla
| authority = Smith, 1858
| type_species = Formica crassinoda
| type_species_authority = Latreille, 1802
| diversity_link = #Species
| diversity = 37 species
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Pachycondyla is a ponerine genus of ants found in the Neotropics.
Distribution
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 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
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File:Pachycondyla eocenica SMFMEI10889.jpg holotype]]
- 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{{Cite journal |last1=Dlussky |first1=G. M. |last2=Rasnitsyn |first2=A. P. |last3=Perfilieva |first3=K. S. |year=2015 |title=The ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya (late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian far east) |journal=Caucasian Entomological Bulletin |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=131–152 |doi= 10.23885/1814-3326-2015-11-1-131-152|doi-access=free }}
- †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)File:Pachycondyla parvula SMFMEI10638.jpg holotype]]
- †Pachycondyla lutzi Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
- †Pachycondyla? messeliana Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
- †Pachycondyla minutansata (Zhang, 1989)File:Pachycondyla succinea BMNHP29202 full 01.jpg male]]
- †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
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{{cite journal |last1=Schmidt |first1=C. A. |last2=Shattuck |first2=S. O. |date=2014 |title=The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior |journal=Zootaxa |volume=3817 |issue=1 |pages=1–242 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 |pmid=24943802}}
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Pachycondyla|Pachycondyla}}
- {{Wikispecies-inline|Pachycondyla|Pachycondyla}}
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Category:Hymenoptera of North America
Category:Hymenoptera of South America
Category:Taxa named by Frederick Smith (entomologist)
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