Cardiocondyla israelica Seifert
 Type location Egypt
(Seifert, 2003: 231, illustrated, worker) Sinai, 1935, W Wittmer;
unjustifiably named israelica
as the type location is in Egypt - no images on Antweb (March 2019).
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 Seifert's (2003) description is at  .
This cannot be readily verified as there are no type images on Antweb.
The Sharaf specimen shown below, however, comes from a series listed as
sighted by Seifert.
Egypt records - type specimen and one paratype
worker from "Tor" = Al-Tor, administrative capital of South Sinai
Governorate, 25.ii.1935, collector W Wittmer - originally labelled as
syntypes of C. elegans var torretassoi [W Wittmer
collections covered in Finzi, 1936]; 5 paratype workers, from 31° 31"
E, 30° 36" N, Ebn Salam, Mansora, salty soil, Tamarix & Phragmites,
collector Sharaf, 7.xi.2002 (samples No 23, 27 & 28)..
Others - 1 worker paratype from Neot Hakikar (Dead Sea),
Israel, 21.iii.1980, collector Kugler; 1 gyne paratype, from Ein
Agrabim, Israel, 22.iii.1980, collector Kugler.
Sharaf list - Material examined: Ebn Salam (El-Daqahliya, Egypt),
13.iv.1999 (8); Ebn Salam (El-Daqahliya, Egypt), 7.xi.2002 (9); Ebn
Salam (El-Daqahliya, Egypt), 16.iv.1999 (1) (SHC); Ebn Salam
(Daqahliya, Egypt), 13.v.1999 (16) Leg. M.R.Sharaf (ASUC).
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 The photomontage is of
specimens from Egypt, Mansurah, Ebu Salam; collector Mostafa
Sharaf.
I have to say that I can see no great differences between this and the Seifert designated Cardiocondyla nigra. His stated colour difference of nigra being "usually concolorous dark to blackish brown" is not borne out by the photographs of the nigra holotype, although he stated also that "specimens with distinctly lighter mesosoma occasionally occur".
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