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 Marcineiro & Lattke, 2024 Pachycondyla constricticeps Mackay & Mackay, 2010 Pachycondyla crassinoda (Latreille, 1802) Pachycondyla fuscoatra (Roger, 1861) Pachycondyla harpax (Fabricius, 1804) Pachycondyla impressa (Roger, 1861) Pachycondyla inca Emery, 1901 Pachycondyla lattkei Mackay & Mackay, 2010 Pachycondyla lenis Kempf, 1961 Pachycondyla lenkoi Kempf, 1962 Pachycondyla procidua Emery, 1890 Pachycondyla purpurascens Forel, 1899 Pachycondyla striata Smith, F., 1858
incertae sedis
Pachycondyla vieirai Mackay & Mackay, 2010 †Pachycondyla aberrans Dlussky, Rasnitsyn, & Perfilieva, 2015 †Pachycondyla baltica Dlussky, 2002 †Pachycondyla calcarea (Théobald, 1937) †Pachycondyla conservata Dlussky, 2009 †Pachycondyla dubia (Théobald, 1937) †Pachycondyla eocenica Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012 †Pachycondyla globiventris (Théobald, 1937) †Pachycondyla gracilicornis (Mayr, 1868) †Pachycondyla labandeirai (Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002) †Pachycondyla lutzi Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012 †Pachycondyla messeliana Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012 †Pachycondyla minutansata (Zhang, 1989) †Pachycondyla nubeculata (Zhang, 1989) †Pachycondyla oligocenica Dlussky, Rasnitsyn, & Perfilieva, 2015 †Pachycondyla parvula Dlussky, Rasnitsyn, & Perfilieva, 2015 †Pachycondyla petiolosa Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012 †Pachycondyla petrosa Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012 †Pachycondyla tristis (Dlussky, 2009)
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