Cardiocondyla elegans Emery

  Type location Italy (Cardiocondyla elegans n. sp., Emery, 1869b: 21, illustrated, worker & queen; Menozzi, 1918: 83, ergatoid male) - see below
junior synonyms
santschii (Cardiocondyla elegans Em. r. Santschii n. subsp., Forel, 1905b: 174, worker; Forel, 1910a: 23, queen; synonymy Bondroit, 1918: 147; Emery, 1922e: 125) from France, Marseille, Dr Santschi - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0908353
gallica (Xenometra gallica, Bernard, 1957b: 101, illustrated, ergatoid male [not queen]; synonymy Baroni Urbani, 1973: 200) from France - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0915399
schkaffi (Arnold'i, 1933b: 599, worker & queen; synonymy Radchenko, 1995g: 449)) from Russia - no images on Antweb (March 2015)
subspecies
dalmaticae (Soudek, 1925a: 34, worker) from Yugoslavia - no images on Antweb (March 2015)
elenorae (Forel, 1911d: 337, worker) from Turkey - no images on Antweb (March 2015)

Emery's (1869b) description is at . Bondroit (1918: 147) gave an illustrated description; this is at . Emery's (1899a) description of ulianini is at . Forel's (1905b) description of santschii is at . Fizni's (1936) description of torretassoi is at .

Egypt records - Forel (1911h: 457) recorded santschii from Cairo, coll E Gräter; Finzi (1936).

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0904460.

WORKER - TL 2.2-2.5 mm; head near matt, finely punctuate, often except the frontal area; scape almost reaching the occiput; alitrunk quite shiny, appearing smooth; propodeal spines quite strong; peduncle shiny, postpetiole 2.5 X wider than the petiole; gaster shiny; overall colour dull brown, appendages clearer; ashy pubescence clearly visible (after Bondroit, 1918)

Photograph from http://www.antbase.fr/fiche1.php?nom=Cardiocondyla%20elegans&type=gen