Condylodon

Condylodon is a genus of ant with an uncertain placement (incertae sedis) in the family Formicidae.[2] It contains the single species Condylodon audouini, first described from a single specimen by Lund (1831) in a paper on Brazilian ants.[3]

Condylodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Condylodon Lund, 1831
Species:	Condylodon audouini
Binomial name
C. copiosa Lund, 1831[1]
Diversity[2]
Monotypic taxon

Taxonomy

The type material is presumed to be lost and the taxonomy of species remains uncertain. It has variously been speculated to belong to different families and subfamilies, including Mutillidae, a family of wasps with females resembling large ants, by Swainson & Shuckard (1840). Dalla Torre (1893) relegated the genus to a junior synonym of Pseudomyrma (now Pseudomyrmex, subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae). Emery (1921) dubiously placed it in Ponerinae. Ward (1990) excluded the taxon from Pseudomyrmecinae, and agreed with Emery's placement in Ponerinae as the most likely candidate, and listed Ectatomma as a possible identity of the genus. Bolton (1994) placed it as incertae sedis in Ponerinae, and most recently, as incertae sedis in Formicidae (Bolton, 2003).[2][3]

References

1. Lund, P. W. (1831). "Lettre sur les habitudes de quelques fourmis du Brésil, adressée à M. Audouin". Annales des Sciences Naturelles (in French). 23: 113–138.
2. Bolton, B. (2015). "Condylodon". AntCat. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
3. Ward, P. S. (1990). "The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Generic revision and relationship to other formicids". Systematic Entomology. 15 (4): 449–489. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1990.tb00077.x.