Cardiocondyla emeryi Forel

Type location Virgin Is. (Forel, 1881: 5, worker); subspecies fezzanensis (Bernard, 1948: 142, queen) from Algeria and ; junior synonyms mahdii (Karavaiev, 1911: 8, worker; synonymy by Bolton, 1982: 312) from Sudan, mauritia (Donisthorpe, 1946c: 776, worker) from Mauritius, monilicornis (Emery, 1917a: 96, ergatoid male) from Virgin Is., nereis (W M Wheeler, 1927i: 140, worker & queen) from Australia and rasalamae (Forel, 1891b: 161, worker; Forel, 1912k: 163, queen) from Madagascar (see Bolton, 1995).
Note schatzmayri (Finzi, 1936: 170, illustrated, worker) from Egypt was removed to synonymy with fajumensis by Seifert (2003). He also gave emeryi ssp chlorotica as of uncertain status, which should be "either a synonym of wroughtoni or obscurior" - it was given as a junior synonym of wroughtoni by Bolton 1982: 317) .

Forel's (1881) description is at . Emery (1909a: 26) gave a comprehensive illustrated description, this is at . Arnold (1916) gave a translation and illustrated description, this is at and . The small drawing is by Emery from his Myrmicinae catalogue (Emery, 1922f). Karavaiev's (1911) description of mahdii, from Khartoum, is at . Finzi's (1936) description of mahdii is at . Seifert's modern description (2003: 276) is at .

WORKER - TL 1.77, HL 0.44, HW 0.36, SL 0.28, PW 0.25
Features as for the genus, then as in key. Colour orange and the gaster and antennal club are brown.

Described as a tramp species by Bolton (1982). Collingwood (1985) reporting it from Saudi Arabia, noted all the samples were taken from leaf litter in tree shade.

Egypt records - (examined by Seifert, 2003) mahdii by Alfieri (1931) from Cairo (El Farag Road), 8.xi.1925, and Fayoum Province, Kashi Gedida, 3.xi.1925; Donisthorpe (1942a) as spp mahdii (Karavaiev, 1911) from Siwa & Khamissa, all forms, collector J Omer-Cooper, June-July 1935; mahdii by Finzi (1936:169) Meadi, 9.viii.1933 & Atar El Nabi, 28.iii.1933; males; also by Donisthorpe (1947e) from Siwa, workers in moth traps, 4 collections, iv-v.1935 and Zegawa, 13.v.1935..
Sharaf records (may include obscurior) - Material examined: El-Taifa (Kafr El-Sheikh), 27.viii.2003 (17) [? obscurior BT det]; Hawamdyia (Giza), 2.xi.2002 (9); Elqasmia (Belbis), 21.ii.2003 (3); Port Said, 26.viii.2003 (2); Ghazal Island (Aswan), 2.v.2002 (8); Alag (Qalyubiya), 27.ii.2003 (1); Cairo Air Port, 11.x.2002 (2); Ebn Salam (El-Daqahliya, Egypt), 7.xi.2002 (14); Khniza (Nubaria), 21.ix.2002 (1); Luxor temple, 4.iii.2003 (1); Shrinkash (Daqahliya, Egypt), 13.v.2003 (5); High Dam (Aswan), 7.iii.2003 (2); Gebel Asfar, 29.iv.2003 (1) (SHC); Assiut, 26.x.1925 (1) (EESC).

Mohamad thesis (1979) had - Asiut, 26.x.1925, (Det.Crawley, 1927) (Coll.Alf.) Egypt, (Det. Crawley, 1927) (Coll.Soc.) Suez, 25.iv.1975; Kom Oshim (Fayium), 7.vii.1975; Kom Hamada, 24.viii.1977; El-Zagazig (Nile Delta), 16.ix.1977; Tanta (Nile Delta), 7.xii.1977; Benha (Nile Delta), 6.ii.1978; Kafr Shukr (Qaliobyia), 22.ii.1978 (Coll.Ain.)

The photomontage is of a specimen collected by Mostafa Sharat at Talka Mansurah, Egypt. Other images can be seen in the folders at - and .

Other images of a specimen from Gabon can be seen at http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0006004

The photomontage is of a queen from Sudan, Abu Gmein, Blue Nile, 11°21' N 34°27' E, collected by J Mathew, 22.x.2000, from pyrethrum fogging of Acacia senegal. Other images can be seen in the folder at - .