Taxonomic history
Roger, 1861a PDF: 6 (q.); Santschi, 1921g PDF: 86 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1952c PDF: 616 (l.).Combination in Ponera (Pachycondyla): Roger, 1861a PDF: 6.Combination in Pachycondyla (Pachycondyla): Emery, 1901b PDF: 45.Combination in Pachycondyla: Mayr, 1863a PDF: 439; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 PDF: 155.Status as species: Roger, 1861a PDF: 6; Mayr, 1862 PDF: 720; Roger, 1863b PDF: 18; Mayr, 1863a PDF: 439; Mayr, 1865 PDF: 65; Emery, 1878a PDF: ix (in list); Emery, 1888c PDF: 353; Emery, 1890b PDF: 71 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 35; von Jhering, 1894 PDF: 380; Forel, 1895b PDF: 115; Emery, 1896h PDF: 625; Emery, 1906c PDF: 114; Forel, 1906d PDF: 249; Forel, 1907d PDF: 6; Forel, 1907h PDF: 1; Forel, 1908 PDF: 345; Emery, 1911e PDF: 75; Forel, 1911g PDF: 254; Bruch, 1914 PDF: 214; Santschi, 1916e PDF: 366; Gallardo, 1918c PDF: 62 (redescription); Luederwaldt, 1918 PDF: 35; Santschi, 1919f PDF: 39; Santschi, 1921g PDF: 86; Borgmeier, 1923: 70; Wheeler, 1925a: 5; Santschi, 1929d PDF: 276; Eidmann, 1936a PDF: 34; Kusnezov, 1953c PDF: 336; Kempf, 1961e PDF: 201; Kempf, 1964e PDF: 52 (in key); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 175; Kempf & Lenko, 1976 PDF: 52; Zolessi et al., 1988: 2; Bolton, 1995b: 310; Wild, 2003 PDF: 15; Wild, 2007b PDF: 40; MacKay & MacKay, 2010 PDF: 527 (redescription); Bezděčková et al., 2015 PDF: 124; Feitosa, 2015c: 99.Senior synonym of Pachycondyla striata nitidiventris: Kempf, 1961e PDF: 201; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 175; Bolton, 1995b: 310; MacKay & MacKay, 2010 PDF: 527.Amambay, Caaguazú , Canindeyú , Cordillera, Guairá , Itapúa , Misiones, Paraguarí , San Pedro, “Paraguay” (s. loc.) (ALWC, BMNH, IFML, INBP, LACM, MCSN, MHNG MZSP, NHMB, NHMW). Literature records: Amambay, Canindeyú , Cordillera, Guairá , Itapúa , Misiones, Paraguarí , San Pedro, “Paraguay” (s. loc.) (Forel 1895, Forel 1906, Wild 2003).
Brasilien (Mus. C. Vienn.), Rio Janeiro (Novara) und eben daher in meiner Sammlung.
Worker. Length 6 1/4 lines.-Black, subopake. Head very delicately striated longitudinally; the mandibles bent, and crossing at their apex, having a few elongate scattered punctures, and their inner margin denticulate. Thorax oblong, the sides flattened, the disk slightly convex, and longitudinally striated, the oblique truncation of the metathorax transversely so; the apical joints of the tarsi rufo-piceous; the anterior tarsi and the tibiae beneath, clothed with ferruginous pubescence; the legs with a few short scattered ferruginous hairs, the calcaria ferruginous. Abdomen: the node of the peduncle incrassate, elevated to a level with the first segment of the abdomen, rounded above; when closely applied to the abdomen, forming apparently the basal segment; the apical segment with thin pale pubescence, and having an elongate naked shining narrow space in the middle; the abdomen thinly sprinkled with erect ferruginous hairs.
Hab. Rio. (Coll. Rev. Hamlet Clark.)
This species resembles the crassinoda of Latreille, but is at once distinguished by its smaller size, its striated head and thorax, and by the lateral margins of the latter having a sharp edge.
