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Pachycondyla species known from Costa Rica

Pachycondyla aenescens Mayr1870

Pachycondyla apicalis (Latreille 1802)

Pachycondyla arhuaca (Forel 1901)

Pachycondyla bugabensis Forel 1899 proposed new status

Pachycondyla carinulata (Roger 1861)

Pachycondyla cauta (Mann 1922)

Pachycondyla cognata (Emery 1896)

Pachycondyla constricta (Mayr 1884)

Pachycondyla crenata (Roger 1861)

Pachycondyla dismarginata Brown ms

Pachycondyla ferruginea (Smith, F. 1858)

Pachycondyla foetida (Linnaeus 1758)

Pachycondyla guianensis (Weber 1939)

Pachycondyla harpax (Fabricius 1804)

Pachycondyla impressa (Roger 1861)

Pachycondyla insignis Brown ms.

Pachycondyla JTL-007 (cf. stigma) Longino ms

Pachycondyla laevigata (Smith, F. 1858)

Pachycondyla lineaticeps Mayr 1866

Pachycondyla obscuricornis Emery 1890

Pachycondyla purpurascens Forel 1899 Proposed revived status

Pachycondyla stigma (Fabricius 1804)

Pachycondyla striatinodis Emery 1890

Pachycondyla theresiae Forel 1899

Pachycondyla unidentata Mayr 1862

Pachycondyla villosa (Fabricius 1804)

In earlier taxonomic literature the genus Pachycondyla was divided into numerous genera. The above species list (not including the Longino morphospecies), was formerly divided as follows (Kempf 1972):

Mesoponera
aenescens
arhuaca
constricta
Neoponera
apicalis
bugabensis
carinulata
crenata
foetida
lineaticeps
obscuricornis
striatinodis
theresiae
unidentata
villosa
Pachycondyla
harpax
impressa
purpurascens
Termitopone
laevigata
Trachymesopus
cautus
cognatus
ferrugineus
stigma
Wadeura
guianensis

Pachycondyla obsoleta Menozzi has type locality in Costa Rica. Although not formally synonymized in the taxonomic literature, it is a junior synonym of Cryptopone gilva.

Page author: John T. Longino longinoj@evergreen.edu

Date of this version: 3 April 1999.
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