Cardiocondyla persiana Seifert, 2003

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, AbdulAziz M. A., Georgiadis, Christos, Nasser, Mohamed G. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2024, Filling gaps in global myrmecology: ants of the Kingdom of Bahrain (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Journal of Natural History 58 (41 - 44), pp. 1705-1786 : 1737-1740

Cardiocondyla persiana Seifert, 2003

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Cardiocondyla persiana Seifert, 2003, p. 236 , fig. 11 (w.q.) Iran. Palaearctic.

Diagnosis

Worker. Cephalic dorsum usually bicoloured with area back to antennal socket dirty yellow, remaining surface dark brown; mesosoma dirty yellow-brown to brown; waist, gaster, and hind- and mid femora black-brown; eye slightly small, with microsetae; promesonotum and propodeum profiles convex; metanotal groove impressed; propodeal spines slightly short and acute with axis profile deviating from mesosomal longitudinal axis by about 48°; petiolar node slightly broader than long and with distinct peduncle; petiolar node feebly steep anteriorly and strongly steep posteriorly; foveolae on vertex more densely packed. For detailed diagnosis see ( Seifert 2003, 2023).

Material examined

Three sites: 4; 9; 25.

Geographic range. This species was originally described from Iran and has a geographic distribution from Georgia east to central Iran ( Seifert 2023); it is also reported from Israel ( Seifert 2003).

Ecology and biology. This species was found foraging under a tree in a low-rainfall forest in Iran ( Pashaei Rad et al. 2018).

Figures

Figure 21. Cardiocondyla persiana. Paratype worker. (A) Body in profile. (B) Head in full-face view, ANTWEB1048531, AntWeb.org (Michele Esposito). (C) Distribution map.