''Condylodon'' is a
genus of
ant with an uncertain placement (''
incertae sedis'') in the family
Formicidae.
It contains the
single species ''Condylodon audouini'', first described from a single specimen by Lund (1831) in a paper on Brazilian ants.
Taxonomy
The
type material
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is presumed to be lost and the taxonomy of species remains uncertain. It has variously been speculated to belong to different families and subfamilies, including
Mutillidae, a family of wasps with females resembling large ants, by Swainson & Shuckard (1840). Dalla Torre (1893) relegated the genus to a
junior synonym
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of ''Pseudomyrma'' (now ''
Pseudomyrmex'', subfamily
Pseudomyrmecinae
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).
Emery (1921) dubiously placed it in
Ponerinae. Ward (1990) excluded the taxon from Pseudomyrmecinae, and agreed with Emery's placement in Ponerinae as the most likely candidate, and listed ''
Ectatomma'' as a possible identity of the genus.
Bolton (1994) placed it as ''incertae sedis'' in Ponerinae, and most recently, as ''incertae sedis'' in Formicidae (Bolton, 2003).
References
Ants
Monotypic ant genera
Enigmatic Formicidae taxa
Hymenoptera of South America
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