Contents Miscellaneous ants - Iran
SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Cardiocondyla
Cardiocondyla ulianini Emery

Cardiocondyla ulianini Emery

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{link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Russia (Cardiocondyla elegans Em. var. Ulianini n. var., Emery, 1889a: 441, worker; Karavaiev, 1910b: 57, queen; raised to species by Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 56, but synonymised with elegans by Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 194; re-elevated to species by Seifert, 2003: 225) Turkestan, Fedtschenko.


{Cardiocondyla elegans ulianini} Emery's (1899a) description of ulianini is at {original description}


{Cardiocondyla ulianini}Seifert's modern description (2003: 225) is at {original description}.


{Cardiocondyla ulianini}The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0904461.

The dorsal view clearly is of a different specimen and the Seifert label bears no obvious relation to either.


Oxford University Museum specimens

Cardiocondyla ulianini
B Taylor det.
Iran
O Paknia
ZMGU 1418
viii.2004
Miankaleh

36°45' to 36°55'N; 53°25' to 54°05'E
2
{album}
Cardiocondyla ulianini
B Taylor det.
Iran
M Safariyan
17
3.iv.2014
35.14755°N
47.78202°E
Sarab Lake
1900 m
pitfall trap; edge of grassland
1
{album}
Cardiocondyla ulianini
B Taylor det.
Iran
M Safariyan
22
2.iv.2014
35.45476°N
46.96285°E
Vahdat Dam
1500 m
pitfall trap; mountainside
1
{album}

{Cardiocondyla ulianini} Iran finding - the photomontage is of workers from Miankaleh; collector Omid Paknia (ZMGU 1418), August 2004.


{Cardiocondyla ulianini} Iran finding - the photomontage is of a worker from Sarab Lake; collector M Safariyan (17), August 2004.

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