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SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Cardiocondyla - Cardiocondyla obscurior Wheeler
{Cardiocondyla obscurior}

Cardiocondyla obscurior Wheeler

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Taiwan (Cardiocondyla wroughtoni var obscurior, W M Wheeler, 1929g: 44, worker & queen; junior synonym bicolor (Donisthorpe, 1930b: 366, worker) from Israel; raised to species Seifert, 1987a: 56).

Wheeler's (1929g) description is at {original description}. Donisthorpe's (1930b) description of bicolor is at {original description}. Seifert's modern description (2003: 289) is at {original description} and {original description}

{Cardiocondyla obscurior}Egypt records - the photomontage is of specimens from Taifa, Kafr Sheik, E 31°21' N 30°56'; 27.viii.2003, collected by Mostafa Sharaf. Other images can be seen in the folder at - {original description}

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