Cardiocondyla sahlbergi Forel

Type location Israel (Cardiocondyla elegans var sahlbergi, Forel, 1913d: 429, queen; Finzi, 1936: 166, illustrated, worker; listed as a species by Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 56).

Forel's (1913d) description is at . Finzi's (1936) description is at . Seifert's (2003) modern description is at .

Egypt records - Finzi (1936: 166); Mohamed et al (2001) gave a drawing of what they determined as wroughtonii; from the drawing, however, it seems that the specimens were probably sahlbergi, for instance the petiole of wroughtonii has a smoothly rounded node whereas the Mohamed drawing shows a narrow node typical of sahlbergi, the propodeum shows the same convexity as sahlbergi. In their key, Mohamed et al, wrote of the head, alitrunk and appendages being yellow and the gaster brown - as Finzi noted. Mostafa Sharaf has checked the specimen shown below

Seifert (2003: 235) did not sight any specimens from Egypt and noted "The very poor collecting activity in Egypt and Libya does not allow to conclude an isolated position of the sample from Tunisia (10° E, 33° N); Seifert did not refer to Agosti & Collingwood (1987a) as raising it to species.

The photomontage is of a specimen from Egypt, taken by Mostafa Sharaf.