Pachycondyla is a ponerine genus of ants found in the Neotropics.
Distribution
Pachycondyla is currently distributed from southern United States to northern Argentina, but some fossil species (e.g. P. eocenica and P. lutzi) are found in Europe.
Species
The genus formerly contained hundreds of species, most of them belonging to at the time junior synonyms of Pachycondyla. While revising the ponerines, Schmidt & Shattuck (2014) revived many of the former synonyms, leaving only eleven species in Pachycondyla. They were not able to place some species with certainty, and left more than twenty species incertae sedis in Pachycondyla, acknowledging that "this placement is undoubtedly incorrect".
- Pachycondyla beneditoi <small>Marcineiro & Lattke, 2024</small>
- Pachycondyla constricticeps <small>Mackay & Mackay, 2010</small>
- Pachycondyla crassinoda <small>(Latreille, 1802)</small>
- Pachycondyla fuscoatra <small>(Roger, 1861)</small>
- Pachycondyla harpax <small>(Fabricius, 1804)</small>
- Pachycondyla impressa <small>(Roger, 1861)</small>
- Pachycondyla inca <small>Emery, 1901</small>
- Pachycondyla lattkei <small>Mackay & Mackay, 2010</small>
- Pachycondyla lenis <small>Kempf, 1961</small>
- Pachycondyla lenkoi <small>Kempf, 1962</small>
- Pachycondyla procidua <small>Emery, 1890</small>
- Pachycondyla purpurascens <small>Forel, 1899</small>
- Pachycondyla striata <small>Smith, F., 1858</small>
- Pachycondyla vieirai <small>Mackay & Mackay, 2010</small>
- â Pachycondyla aberrans <small>Dlussky, Rasnitsyn, & Perfilieva, 2015</small>
- â Pachycondyla baltica <small>Dlussky, 2002</small>
- â Pachycondyla calcarea <small>(Théobald, 1937)</small>
- â Pachycondyla conservata <small>Dlussky, 2009</small>
- â Pachycondyla dubia <small>(Théobald, 1937)</small>
- â Pachycondyla eocenica <small>Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012</small>
- â Pachycondyla globiventris <small>(Théobald, 1937)</small>
- â Pachycondyla gracilicornis <small>(Mayr, 1868)</small>
- â Pachycondyla labandeirai <small>(Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002)</small>
- â Pachycondyla lutzi <small>Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012</small>
- â Pachycondyla messeliana <small>Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012</small>
- â Pachycondyla minutansata <small>(Zhang, 1989)</small>
- â Pachycondyla nubeculata <small>(Zhang, 1989)</small>
- â Pachycondyla oligocenica <small>Dlussky, Rasnitsyn, & Perfilieva, 2015</small>
- â Pachycondyla parvula <small>Dlussky, Rasnitsyn, & Perfilieva, 2015</small>
- â Pachycondyla petiolosa <small>Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012</small>
- â Pachycondyla petrosa <small>Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012</small>
- â Pachycondyla tristis <small>(Dlussky, 2009)</small>
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