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SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Cardiocondyla Emery
Cardiocondyla elegans Emery

Cardiocondyla elegans Emery

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{link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} 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)


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


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


Oxford University Museum specimens

Cardiocondyla elegans
B Taylor det.
Queen

Iran
M Ghatei
37

16.v.2015
37.13°N
49.58°E
9 m
Lahijan, Guilan
hand collected
park, on ground
0520h
1
{album}
Cardiocondyla elegans
B Taylor det.
Iran
M Ghatei
38
4.vi.2015
37.98°N
49.24°E
58 m
Shaft, Guilan
hand collected
garden, on ground
1300h
1
{album}

{Cardiocondyla elegans worker}The photomontage is of a worker from Iran, Labijan, Guilan; collected by M Ghatei (38).


{Cardiocondyla elegans queen}The photomontage is of a queen from Iran, Shaft, Guilan; collected by M Ghatei (37).

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