Cardiocondyla israelica Seifert

Type location Egypt (Seifert, 2003: 231, illustrated, worker) - unjustifiably named israelica.

Seifert's (2003) description is at .

Egypt records - type specimen and one paratype worker from "Tor" = Al-Tor, administrative capital of South Sinai Governorate, 25.ii.1935, collector W Wittmer - originally labelled as syntypes of C. elegans var torretassoi [W Wittmer collections covered in Finzi, 1936]; 5 paratype workers, from 31° 31" E, 30° 36" N, Ebn Salam, Mansora, salty soil, Tamarix & Phragmites, collector Sharaf, 7.xi.2002 (samples No 23, 27 & 28)..

Others - 1 worker paratype from Neot Hakikar (Dead Sea), Israel, 21.iii.1980, collector Kugler; 1 gyne paratype, from Ein Agrabim, Israel, 22.iii.1980, collector Kugler.
Sharaf list - Material examined: Ebn Salam (El-Daqahliya, Egypt), 13.iv.1999 (8); Ebn Salam (El-Daqahliya, Egypt), 7.xi.2002 (9); Ebn Salam (El-Daqahliya, Egypt), 16.iv.1999 (1) (SHC); Ebn Salam (Daqahliya, Egypt), 13.v.1999 (16) Leg. M.R.Sharaf (ASUC).

The photomontage is of specimens from Egypt, collected by Mostafa Sharaf. Other images can be seen in the folder at - .

Ecological note (M Sharaf) - this species was collected from Ebn Salam; a small village about 10 km from El-Daqahliya, Egypt living under a tamarisk trees, Tamarix nilotica, and nesting in a very salty soil with some Phragmites australis plants distributed near the nesting site.