Cardiocondyla
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Cardiocondyla is an ant genus in the family Formicidae.
Closely related genera are Leptothorax
, Stereomyrmex
and Romblonella
.
Closely related genera are Leptothorax
Leptothorax
Leptothorax is a large genus of small ants with mainly Holarctic distribution. The genus is notable for its widespread social parasitism, i.e. they are dependent on the help of workers from other ant species during a part or the whole of their life cycles...
, Stereomyrmex
Stereomyrmex
Stereomyrmex is a genus of myrmicine ants. Two of the described species are known from only a single worker, making this one of the rarest groups of ants in the world.-Biology:...
and Romblonella
Romblonella
Romblonella is a genus of myrmicine ants.-Systematics:Romblonella is probably the sister taxon to Stereomyrmex. Closely related genera are Leptothorax Mayr and Cardiocondyla Emery.-Biology:...
.
Species
- C. atalanta
- C. batesii
- C. bicoronata
- C. brachyceps
- C. breviscapus
- C. britteni
- C. bulgarica
- C. carbonaria
- C. cristata
- C. elegansCardiocondyla elegansCardiocondyla elegans is an ant species in the genus Cardiocondyla found in the Mediterranean region.-References:* Emery, C. 1869: Enumerazione dei Formicidi che rinvengonsi nei contorni di Napoli. Annali dell'Accademia degli Aspiranti Naturalisti, 2: 1-26.* Seifert, B. 2003: The ant genus...
- C. emeryi
- C. fajumensis
- C. gallagheri
- C. gallilaeica
- C. gibbosa
- C. goa
- C. insutura
- C. israelica
- C. jacquemini
- C. kagutsuchi
- C. koshewnikovi
- C. kushanica
- C. littoralis
- C. longiceps
- C. longinoda
- C. luciae
- C. mauritanica
- C. melana
- C. minutior
- C. monardi
- C. nana
- C. neferka
- C. nigra
- C. nigrocerea
- C. nivalis
- C. nuda
- C. obscurior
- C. opaca
- C. opistopsis
- C. papuana
- C. paradoxa
- C. paranuda
- C. parvinoda
- C. persiana
- C. rugulosa
- C. sahlbergi
- C. sekhemka
- C. semirubra
- C. shagrinata
- C. shuckardi
- C. sima
- C. stambuloffii
- C. strigifrons
- C. tenuifrons
- C. thoracica
- C. tibetana
- C. tiwarii
- C. tjibodana
- C. ulianini
- C. unicalis
- C. venustula
- C. weserka
- C. wheeleri
- C. wroughtonii
- C. yemeni
- C. yoruba
- C. zoserkaCardiocondyla zoserkaCardiocondyla zoserka is a species of ant in the family Formicidae. It is endemic to Nigeria.-References:* Social Insects Specialist Group 1996. . Downloaded on 31 July 2007....