Cardiocondyla mauritanica (Forel)
 Type location Tunisia
(Cardiocondyla nuda Mayr r. mauritanica, Forel, 1890a:
lxxv,
worker; Forel, 1901e: 378, queen; Forel, 1904c: 6, ergatoid male;
raised to species, Ortiz & Tinaut, 1987: 32) Kairouan, Santschi
junior synonym nitida
(Cardiocondyla Emeryi Forel
sbsp. nitida, Bernard, 1948:
142, worker; synonymy by Bernard, 1956c: 305) from Algeria - no
images on Antweb (March 2019)
ectopia (Snelling, 1974: 76, illustrated, worker,
queen
& ergatoid male) from USA;
synonymy by Seifert, 2003: 248) - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0103432.
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 Forel's (1890a)
description simply noted that mauritanica
differed from the type form (of nuda) by having a deeper, more
distinct metanotal groove, the alitrunk dorsum being somber red and the
antero-lateral margins of the pronotum being more marked. Forel's
(1904c) description is at  . Finzi's (1936) illustrated note is at  . Bernard's (1948) description
of nitida is at  . Otiz & Tinaut's (1967) description
(not listed by Seifert, 2003) is at  .
Seifert (2003: 248) has a record, without details, of a
collection from Zimbabwe, 1995, 07.
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 The
photomontage of a cotype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0103167.
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 Seifert's (2003: 248) revisionary description is at .
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 Egypt
records - Karavaiev (1911: 8) found workers in the Municipal Garden
in Aswan, nesting in the earth around a flower bed; Forel (1911h: 457)
recorded mauritanica from Cairo, coll E Gräter; Donisthorpe
(1942a), two dealated queens & 42 workers from Siwa, collector J
Omer-Cooper, June-August 1935 - probably Cardiocondyla batesii; Finzi
(1936) from Aswan, Cairo,
Khartoum, series of workers & alate queens from Wadi Isla, Sinai,
28.ii.1933; the report by Mohamed et al (2001) of nuda seems
more likely to be mauritanica, especially as they described
their specimens (in key) as having the head, alitrunk, nodes and
appendages brown, gaster black, whereas the original nuda
description has the alitrunk as fuscous and the head and gaster
blackish, Mayr also described the petiole nodes as being punctate.
Mohamad (1979) thesis had - Sakkara road (Giza) (Coll.Min.)
Alexandria, 5.viii.1975; Pyramids, 18.v.1976; Benimazar (El-Menyia),
28.i.1978; Menyia el-Qamh (Sharqyia), 30.i.1978 (Coll.Ain.)
Seifert (2003) lists the Karavaiev finding and adds - Gizeh, gyne,
27.iv.1994, and Hurghada Gifthun, worker, 12.ix.1992, and, Cairo,
worker, 30.x.1957.
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Oxford University Museum
specimens
Cardiocondyla mauritanica
B Taylor det. |
Egypt
M Sharaf
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17.iii.2007
Marsa Matrouh
31°21' N
27°14' E
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Kaseh Tourist Village
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3
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Cardiocondyla mauritanica
B Taylor det. |
Egypt
M Sharaf |
8.iii.1998
Mafareq
28°42' N
33°19' E
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1
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Cardiocondyla mauritanica
B Taylor det. |
Egypt
M Sharaf |
7.viii.2007
Sallant Mansurah
31°10' N
31°35' E |
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1
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 The
photomontage of what appear a fair match to the type
form is of workers from Egypt, Kaseh Tourism Village, Marsa
Matrouh; collector Mostafa Sharaf.
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Cardiocondyla mauritanica morph B - Seifert
(2003: 250)
Seifert examined a worker from Egypt, 23.iv.1968, Sinai,
Ein Chadjiah; also from Spain, Granada, Motril, iv.2004, collector
Heinze, 11 workers out of four nests of typical Cc. mauritanica.
Sharaf list - Material examined: Sahab (South Sinai), 5.iii.1998 (3);
Salhyia, 17.iii.2002 (1); Abu-Swelam (El-Minyia), 29.vi.2003 (2);
Elqasmia (Belbis), 21.ii.2003 (1); Sahab (South Sinai), 8.iii.1998 (1)
(SHC).
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 The
photomontage of what appear a fair match to the
Seifert morph B is of workers from Egypt, Mafareq, S Sinai;
collector Mostafa Sharaf.
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 The photomontage is of a workers from Egypt, taken by
Mostafa Sharaf.
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