Pachycondyla
Genus of ants
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Pachycondyla is a ponerine genus of ants found in the Neotropics.
| Pachycondyla Temporal range: | |
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| Pachycondyla harpax worker | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Alliance: | Pachycondyla genus group |
| Genus: | Pachycondyla Smith, 1858 |
| Type species | |
| Formica crassinoda Latreille, 1802 | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 37 species | |
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]
- Pachycondyla beneditoi Marcineiro & Lattke, 2024
- 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 procidua Emery, 1890
- Pachycondyla purpurascens Forel, 1899
- Pachycondyla striata Smith, F., 1858
incertae sedis
- Pachycondyla vieirai Mackay & Mackay, 2010
- †Pachycondyla aberrans Dlussky, Rasnitsyn, & Perfilieva, 2015[2]
- †Pachycondyla baltica Dlussky, 2002
- †Pachycondyla calcarea (Théobald, 1937)
- †Pachycondyla conservata Dlussky, 2009
- †Pachycondyla dubia (Théobald, 1937)
- †Pachycondyla eocenica Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
- †Pachycondyla globiventris (Théobald, 1937)
- †Pachycondyla gracilicornis (Mayr, 1868)
- †Pachycondyla labandeirai (Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002)
P. parvula holotype - †Pachycondyla lutzi Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
- †Pachycondyla messeliana Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
- †Pachycondyla minutansata (Zhang, 1989)
Pachycondyla succinea male - †Pachycondyla nubeculata (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 tristis (Dlussky, 2009)
