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Genus: Cardiocondyla   Emery, 1869 

Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2021)

Extant: 73 valid species, 2 valid subspecies

Cardiocondyla Emery, 1869b PDF: 20. Type-species: Cardiocondyla elegans, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Cardiocondyla in Myrmicinae, Cardiocondylini: Emery, 1914e PDF: 40; Arnold, 1916 PDF: 200; Forel, 1917 PDF: 242; Emery, 1922c PDF: 124; Wheeler, 1922: 661; all subsequent authors; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80 (anachronism); Jaffe, 1993: 10 (anachronism).
Genus Cardiocondyla references
André, 1883a: 327 (Europe & Algeria species key); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 70 (catalogue); Forel, 1903a PDF: 688 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 287 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Ruzsky, 1905b: 623 (Russian Empire species key); Emery, 1909a PDF: 20 (Palaearctic species key); Arnold, 1916 PDF: 200 (diagnosis); Emery, 1922c PDF: 124 (diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1922c PDF: 126 (Xenometra diagnosis, catalogue); Wheeler, 1922: 149, 827, 1021 (diagnosis, Afrotropical, Malagasy catalogues); Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927d PDF: 37 (Turkestan species key); Karavaiev, 1934: 114 (Ukraine species key); Finzi, 1936 PDF: 172 (Egypt species key); Smith, 1944a PDF: 32 (U.S.A. species key); Creighton, 1950a PDF: 197 (North America species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 83 (Asia checklist); Bernard, 1956c PDF: 301 (Palaearctic species key); Bernard, 1967a PDF: 156 (diagnosis, Western Europe species key); Bernard, 1967a PDF: 158 (Xenometra diagnosis); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 73, 259 (Neotropical Cardiocondyla, Xenometra catalogues); Alayo, 1974 PDF: 12 (Cuba species key); Tarbinsky, 1976 PDF: 71 (Kyrghyzstan species key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 538 (former European U.S.S.R. species key); Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 86 (Iberian Peninsula species key); Smith, 1979: 1375 (North America catalogue); Bolton, 1982 PDF: 309 (diagnosis, Afrotropical species key); Kugler, 1984 PDF: 17 (males, key); Collingwood, 1985 PDF: 256 (Saudi Arabia species key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 276 (Balkans species key); Dlussky et al., 1990 PDF: 193 (Turkmenistan species key); Morisita et al., 1992: 31 (Japan species key); Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 172 (Bulgaria species key); Arakelian, 1994 PDF: 42 (Armenia species key); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1048 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 132 (catalogue); Radchenko, 1995g PDF: 452 (Palaearctic species key); MacKay, 1995 PDF: 170 (New World species key); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 68 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 326 (Saudi Arabia species key); Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 16 (Portugal species key); Terayama, 1999d PDF: 99 (Japan species, review); Shattuck, 1999: 129 (Australia synopsis); Zhou, 2001a PDF: 85 (China, Guangxi species key); Rigato, 2002 PDF: 172 (Afrotropical species key); Seifert, 2003a PDF: 292 (Cardiocondyla elegans, Cardiocondyla bulgarica, Cardiocondyla batesii, Cardiocondyla nuda, Cardiocondyla shuckardi, Cardiocondyla stambuloffii, Cardiocondyla wroughtonii, Cardiocondyla emeryi, Cardiocondyla minutior groups revision, key); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 179 (Taiwan species key); Sarnat & Economo, 2012 PDF: 72 (Fiji species key); Seifert et al., 2017 10.11646/zootaxa.4290.2.4. PDF: 324 (Cardiocondyla nuda group revision, key); Cantone, 2017 PDF: 192 (brief male diagnosis); Fernández & Serna, 2019 PDF: 819 (Colombia species key)

Taxon Page Images:



Cardiocondyla emeryi Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA.
Image © Alex Wild. // Distribution

Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Africa: Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Chagos Islands, Comoros, Egypt, Ethiopia, Europa Island, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Juan de Nova Island, Kenya, Libya, Macaronesia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Senegal, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
    Americas: Anguilla, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States, United States Virgin Islands, Venezuela
    Asia: Afghanistan, Armenia, Bhutan, Borneo, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Krakatau Islands, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
    Europe: Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom
    Oceania: American Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hawaii, Kiribati, Lord Howe Island, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oceania, Palearctic
  Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records):
    Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Oceania, Palearctic

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Cardiocondyla   Mohamed, S., Zalat, S. & Fadl, H., 2001, Taxonomy of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) collected by pitfall traps from Sinai and Delta region, Egypt., Egyptian Journal of Natural History 3, pp. 40-61: 50, (download) 50 21622
Cardiocondyla   Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269: 149, (download) 149 20597
Cardiocondyla   Forel, A., 1891, Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. Deuxieme partie: Les Formicides., Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar., Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale, pp. 1-231: 159-160, (download) 159-160 6734
Cardiocondyla   Paknia, O., Radchenko, A. & Alipanah, H., 2008, A preliminary checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Iran., Myrmecologische Nachrichten 11, pp. 151-159: 154, (download) 154 21820
Cardiocondyla   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 31-32, (download) 31-32 21008
Cardiocondyla   Eguchi, K., Viet, B. T. & Yamane, S., 2011, Generic synopsis of the Formicidae of Vietnam (Insecta: Hymenoptera), Part I - Myrmicinae and Pseudomyrmicinae., Zootaxa 2878, pp. 1-61: 13, (download) 13 23462
Cardiocondyla   Forel, A., 1891, Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. Deuxieme partie: Les Formicides., Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar., Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale, pp. 1-231: 160-161, (download) 160-161 6734
Cardiocondyla   Paknia, O., Radchenko, A. & Alipanah, H., 2008, A preliminary checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Iran., Myrmecologische Nachrichten 11, pp. 151-159: 154, (download) 154 21820


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