Cardiocondyla ectopia

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Cardiocondyla ectopia Snelling, 1974 junior synonym of current valid taxon Cardiocondyla mauritanica Forel, 1890

Cardiocondyla ectopia Snelling, 1974: 76, figs. 1-5 (w.q.em.) U.S.A. (California). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A: California, Orange County, Seal Beach, 25 ft, 17-24. vii.1972, no. 72-9 (R.R. Snelling). Primary type depository: LACM. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 282 paratype workers, 17 paratype queens, 3 paratype males. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: AMNH, LACM, MCZC, USNM.

Status as species: Smith, 1979: 1375; Snelling & George, 1979: 117; Kugler, 1984: 12; Bolton, 1995b: 132; MacKay, 1995: 171 (in key).
Junior synonym of Cardiocondyla mauritanica: Seifert, 2003a: 248; Seifert et al., 2017: 338.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Kugler, J. 1984 ("1983"). The males of Cardiocondyla Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with the description of the winged male of Cardiocondyla wroughtoni (Forel). Israel Journal of Entomology 17:1-21. PDF
MacKay, W. P. 1995. New distributional records for the ant genus Cardiocondyla in the New World (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 71:169-172. PDF
Seifert, B. 2003a. The ant genus Cardiocondyla (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) - a taxonomic revision of the C. elegans, C. bulgarica, C. batesii, C. nuda, C. shuckardi, C. stambuloffii, C. wroughtonii, C. emeryi, and C. minutior species groups. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. B, Botanik, Zoologie 104:203-338. PDF
Seifert, B.; Okita, I.; Heinze, J. 2017. A taxonomic revision of the Cardiocondyla nuda group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4290:324-356. 10.11646/zootaxa.4290.2.4. PDF
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Snelling, R. R. 1974. Studies on California ants. 8. A new species of Cardiocondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 82:76-81. PDF
Snelling, R. R.; George, C. D. 1979. The taxonomy, distribution and ecology of California desert ants. Report to California Desert Plan Program, Bureau of Land Management. Riverside: U.S. Dept. Interior, 335 + 89 pp.

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