Cardiocondyla paradoxa

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea.

Nomenclature

 * . Cardiocondyla paradoxa Emery, 1897c: 589, pl. 15, figs. 22, 23 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
 * Type-material: 5 syntype workers.
 * Type-locality: Papua New Guinea: Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (= Madang) (L. Biró).
 * Type-depositories: HNHM, MSNG.
 * Status as species: Viehmeyer, 1914c: 518; Emery, 1922e: 126; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 83; Smith, M.R. 1955d: 305; Bolton, 1995b: 133.
 * Senior synonym of brevispinosa: Smith, M.R. 1955d: 305; Bolton, 1995b: 133.
 * Distribution: Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea.
 * brevispinosa. Pheidole (Pheidolacanthinus) brevispinosa Donisthorpe, 1948d: 593 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia).
 * Type-material: 4 syntype workers.
 * Type-locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”): Maffin Bay, 10.vi.1944 (E.S. Ross).
 * Type-depositories: BMNH, CASC.
 * Combination in Cardiocondyla: Smith, M.R. 1955d: 305.
 * Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1949b: 494; Donisthorpe, 1950a: 338; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 137.
 * Junior synonym of paradoxa: Smith, M.R. 1955d: 305; Bolton, 1995b: 132.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * CSIRO Collection
 * Donisthorpe H. 1948. A third instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)14: 589-604.
 * Donisthorpe H. 1949. A fifth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1: 487-506.
 * Donisthorpe H. 1950. An eighth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)3: 338-341.
 * Emery C. 1897. Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Természetrajzi Füzetek 20: 571-599.
 * Janda M., G. D. Alpert, M. L. Borowiec, E. P. Economo, P. Klimes, E. Sarnat, and S. O. Shattuck. 2011. Cheklist of ants described and recorded from New Guinea and associated islands. Available on http://www.newguineants.org/. Accessed on 24th Feb. 2011.
 * Room P. M. 1975. Diversity and organization of the ground foraging ant faunas of forest, grassland and tree crops in Papua Nez Guinea. Aust. J. Zool. 23: 71-89.
 * Smith M. R. 1955. The correct taxonomic status of Pheidole (Pheidolacanthinus) brevispinosa Donisthorpe (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 57: 305.
 * Snelling R. R. 2000. Ants of the Wapoga river area, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. In Mack, Andrew L. and Leeanne E. Alonso (eds.). 2000. A Biological Assessment of the Wapoga River Area of Northwestern Irian Jaya, Indonesia. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 14, Conservation International, Washington, DC.
 * Viehmeyer H. 1912. Ameisen aus Deutsch Neuguinea gesammelt von Dr. O. Schlaginhaufen. Nebst einem Verzeichnisse der papuanischen Arten. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologische-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden 14: 1-26.
 * Viehmeyer H. 1914. Papuanische Ameisen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1914: 515-535.
 * Wilson E. O. 1959. Patchy distributions of ant species in New Guinea rain forests. Psyche (Cambridge) 65: 26-38.
 * Wilson E. O. 1959. Some ecological characteristics of ants in New Guinea rain forests. Ecology 40: 437-447.