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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
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Formicidae
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Myrmicinae
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Crematogastrini
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Cardiocondyla
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Cardiocondyla obscurior
Cardiocondyla
obscurior
Wheeler, 1929
valid
Cardiocondyla wroughtoni var. obscurior
Wheeler, 1929h
: 44 (w.q.) TAIWAN. Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: 1 syntype worker, 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Taiwan (“Formosa”): Eisei (
F. Silvestri
). Primary type depository:
MCZC
.
Junior synonym of
Cardiocondyla wroughtonii
:
Lin & Wu, 2003
: 63.
Subspecies of
Cardiocondyla wroughtonii
:
Wheeler, 1930b
: 98;
Chapman & Capco, 1951
: 84;
Bolton, 1995b
: 133.
Status as species:
Seifert, 2003a
: 271 (redescription);
Wetterer & Vargo, 2003
: 417;
Wetterer & Wetterer, 2004
: 215;
Clouse, 2007b
: 230;
Terayama, 2009
: 179;
Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010
: 41;
Ellison
et al.
, 2012
: 235;
Sarnat & Economo, 2012
: 74;
Hita Garcia
et al.
, 2013
: 208;
Borowiec, 2014
: 48;
Ramage, 2014
: 171;
Bharti
et al.
, 2016
: 34;
Wetterer
et al.
, 2016
: 10;
Deyrup, 2017
: 56;
Wang
et al.
, 2022
: 69.
Senior synonym of
Cardiocondyla bicolor
:
Seifert, 2003a
: 271.
Junior synonyms
Cardiocondyla bicolor
Donisthorpe, 1930
Obsolete combinations
Cardiocondyla wroughtonii obscurior
Citations
Bharti, H.
;
Guénard, B.
;
Bharti, M.
;
Economo, E. P.
2016.
An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae).
ZooKeys 551:1-83.
PDF
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borowiec, L.
2014.
Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340.
PDF
Chapman, J. W.
;
Capco, S. R.
1951.
Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia.
Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327.
PDF
Clouse, R. M.
2007b.
The ants of Micronesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Micronesica 39:171-295.
PDF
Deyrup, M.
2017.
Ants of Florida. Identification and natural history.
Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press (Taylor & Francis group), 423 pp.
Ellison, A. M.
;
Gotelli, N. J.
;
Farnsworth, E. J.
;
Alpert, G. D.
2012.
A field guide to the ants of New England.
New Haven: Yale University Press, xv + 398 pp.
Hita Garcia, F.
;
Wiesel, E.
;
Fischer, G.
2013.
The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography.
Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222.
PDF
Lin, C.-C.
;
Wu, W.-J.
2003.
The ant fauna of Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with keys to subfamilies and genera. [In Chinese.].
Guoli Taiwan Bowuguan Niankan 46:5-69.
Ramage, T.
2014.
Les fourmis de Polynésie française (Hymenoptera, Formicidae).
Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 119 (2):145-176.
PDF
Sarnat, E. M.
;
Economo, E. P.
2012.
The ants of Fiji. University of California Publications in Entomology, Volume 132.
Berkeley: University of California Press, xiii + 384 pp.
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
Terayama, M.
2009.
A synopsis of the family Formicidae of Taiwan (Insecta: Hymenoptera).
Research Bulletin of Kanto Gakuen University. Liberal Arts 17:81-266.
PDF
Vonshak, M.
;
Ionescu-Hirsch, A.
2010 ("2009").
A checklist of the ants of Israel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Israel Journal of Entomology 39:33-55.
PDF
Wang, W. Y.
;
Soh, E. J. Y.
;
Yong, G. W. J.
;
Wong, M. K. L.
;
Guénard, B.
;
Economo, E. P.
;
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2022.
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10.20362/am.015006
PDF
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;
Lubertazzi, D.
;
Rana, J. D.
;
Wilson, E. O.
2016.
Ants of Barbados.
Breviora 548:1-34.
PDF
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;
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2003.
Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Samoa.
Pacific Science 57:409-419.
PDF
Wetterer, J. K.
;
Wetterer, A. L.
2004.
Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bermuda.
Florida Entomologist 87 (2):212-221.
PDF
Wheeler, W. M.
1929h.
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PDF
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