Pachycondyla Rufipes

''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

'' incertae sedis''

*''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'' (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)

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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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