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''Pachycondyla'' is a
*'' 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
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*†'' 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)
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 the fu ...
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
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 ...
s found in the Neotropics
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropics, tropical Ecoregion#Terrestrial, terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperat ...
.
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 timejunior synonym
The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.
* In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linna ...
s 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, uncertainty ...
'' 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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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, uncertainty ...
''
*'' 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
''Pachycondyla'' is a Ponerinae, 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. ''Pachycondyla eocenica, P. ...
'' (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
External links
* * Ponerinae Ant genera Hymenoptera of North America Hymenoptera of South America Taxa named by Frederick Smith (entomologist) {{Ponerinae-stub