''Pachycondyla'' is a
ponerine
Ponerinae is a subfamily of ants in the Poneromorph subfamilies group, with about 1,600 species in 47 extant genera, including '' Dinoponera gigantea'' - one of the world's largest species of ant. Mated workers have replaced the queen as th ...
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22,0 ...
s found in the
Neotropics
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bi ...
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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
' () or ''problematica'' is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertain ...
'' in ''Pachycondyla'', acknowledging that "this placement is undoubtedly incorrect".
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Pachycondyla constricticeps
''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'') ...
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Mackay & Mackay, 2010
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Pachycondyla crassinoda
''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'') ...
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(Latreille, 1802)
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Pachycondyla fuscoatra
''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'') ...
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(Roger, 1861)
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Pachycondyla harpax
''Pachycondyla harpax'', the rapacious panther ant, is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.
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Ponerinae
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(Fabricius, 1804)
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Pachycondyla impressa
''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'') ...
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(Roger, 1861)
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Pachycondyla inca
''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'') ...
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Emery, 1901
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Pachycondyla lattkei
''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'') ...
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Mackay & Mackay, 2010
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Pachycondyla lenis
''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'') ...
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Kempf, 1961
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Pachycondyla lenkoi''
Kempf, 1962
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Pachycondyla purpurascens
''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'') ...
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Forel, 1899
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Pachycondyla striata
''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'') ...
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Smith, F., 1858
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incertae sedis
' () or ''problematica'' is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertain ...
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Pachycondyla curiosa''
Mackay & Mackay, 2010
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Pachycondyla jonesii''
Forel, 1891
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Pachycondyla solitaria''
Smith, F., 1860
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Pachycondyla unicolor''
Smith, F., 1860
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Pachycondyla vidua''
Smith, F., 1857
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Pachycondyla vieirai''
Mackay & Mackay, 2010
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Pachycondyla aberrans''
Dlussky, Rasnitsyn, & Perfilieva, 2015
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Pachycondyla baltica''
Dlussky, 2002
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Pachycondyla calcarea''
(Théobald, 1937)
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Pachycondyla conservata''
Dlussky, 2009
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Pachycondyla crawleyi''
(Donisthorpe, 1920)
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Pachycondyla dubia
''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'') ...
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(Théobald, 1937)
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Pachycondyla eocenica
''Pachycondyla eocenica'' is an extinct species of ant in the formicid subfamily Ponerinae described from fossils found in Europe. ''P. eocenica'' is one of six Lutetian ''Pachycondyla'' species.
History and classification
When described, ...
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Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
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Pachycondyla globiventris
''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'') ...
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(Théobald, 1937)
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Pachycondyla gracilicornis
''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'') ...
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(Mayr, 1868)
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Pachycondyla labandeirai
''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'' ...
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(Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002)
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Pachycondyla lutzi
''Pachycondyla lutzi'' is an extinct species of ant in the formicid subfamily Ponerinae described by from fossils found in Europe. ''P. lutzi'' is one of six Lutetian ''Pachycondyla'' species.
History and classification
When described ''Pa ...
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Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
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Pachycondyla? messeliana
''Pachycondyla? messeliana'' is an extinct species of ants in the formicid subfamily Ponerinae described by from a fossil found in Europe. ''P.? messeliana'' is one of six Lutetian ''Pachycondyla'' species.
History and classification
When ...
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Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
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Pachycondyla minutansata
''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'') ...
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(Zhang, 1989)
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Pachycondyla nubeculata
''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'') ...
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(Zhang, 1989)
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Pachycondyla oligocenica
''Pachycondyla oligocenica'' is an extinct species of formicid in the ant subfamily Ponerinae known from a fossil found in eastern Asia.
History and classification
''P. oligocenica'' is known from a single ant found in Russia. The specimen wa ...
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Dlussky, Rasnitsyn, & Perfilieva, 2015
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Pachycondyla parvula
''Pachycondyla parvula'' is an extinct species of ant in the formicid subfamily Ponerinae described by from a fossil found in Europe. ''P. parvula'' is one of six Lutetian ''Pachycondyla'' species.
History and classification
When described ' ...
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Dlussky, Rasnitsyn, & Perfilieva, 2015
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Pachycondyla petiolosa
''Pachycondyla petiolosa'' is an extinct species of ant in the formicid subfamily Ponerinae described by from a fossil found in Europe. ''P. parvula'' is one of six Lutetian ''Pachycondyla'' species.
History and classification
When described ...
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Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
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Pachycondyla petrosa
''Pachycondyla petrosa'' is an extinct species of ant in the formicid subfamily Ponerinae described from a fossil found in Europe. ''P. petrosa'' is one of six Lutetian ''Pachycondyla'' species.
History and classification
When described ''Pac ...
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Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012
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Pachycondyla succinea
''Pachycondyla succinea'' is an extinct species of ant in the formicid subfamily Ponerinae described from fossils found in Europe. ''P. petrosa'' is one of three middle Eocene ''Pachycondyla'' species found in Baltic amber.
History and class ...
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(Mayr, 1868)
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Pachycondyla tristis
''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'') ...
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(Dlussky, 2009)
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Ponerinae
Ant genera
Hymenoptera of North America
Hymenoptera of South America
Taxa named by Frederick Smith (entomologist)
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