Cardiocondyla stambuloffii, Forel, 1892

Seifert, Bernhard, 2023, A revision of the Palaearctic species of the ant genus Cardiocondyla Emery 1869 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Zootaxa 5274 (1), pp. 1-64 : 8

Cardiocondyla stambuloffii group

True foveolae on vertex completely absent. Instead the bases of pubescence hairs are placed in the center of flat tubercles or flat pits of small diameter, giving a finely punctate surface appearance at lower magnifications, dFOV 8.13 ± 0.78 [5.0, 10.0]. Frons very wide, FRS/CS 0.320 ± 0.015 [0.269, 0.353]. Propodeal spines reduced to blunt dents, SP/CS 0.070 ± 0.013 [0.027, 0.096]. Metanotal depression deep, MGr/CS 3.57 ± 0.83 [1.63, 6.16] %; all numeric data from 153 worker individuals of five species. SE Europe across Asia Minor eastwards to Tibet and Mongolia with four described and one undescribed species, tramp species unknown: C. stambuloffii Forel 1892 , C. koshewnikovi Ruzsky 1902 , C. gibbosa Kuznetzov-Ugamsky 1927 , C. tibetana Seifert 2003 and Cardiocondyla rolandi n. sp.