Dilobocondyla

Identification
Zettel and Bruckner (2013) - Worker (modified from Bolton 1994, General & Alpert 2012): Head massive, with posterior corners angulate or dentate. Frontal carinae well-developed. Antennal scrobe present dorsal of eye. Clypeus medially slightly emarginated, with stout median seta. Mandible striated, with six teeth on masticatory margin, with unarmed basal margin. Antenna twelve-segmented, apically with moderately widened three-segmented club. Pronotum with toothed corners. Propodeum without teeth; propodeal lobes large and rounded in Philippine species. Petiole almost cylindrical, lacking a distinct node, anteroventrally toothed. Head and mesosoma with rugous, often coarse sculpture; gaster with microsculpture. Entire body including scape, femora, tibiae, and first tarsomeres with erect, stout setae.

Yellowish to light brown. Posterior margin of head concave. Frontal carinae strong, reaching posterior corners of head. Sculpture on head coarse, on mesosoma moderately coarse; interspaces on head reticulated and matt, on mesosoma, petiole, and postpetiole usually smooth, only mesosoma dorsally with reduced micropuncturation and petiole anterodorsally reticulated. Petiole very slender; PtI 202 - 210.

Keys

 * Key to Dilobocondyla Species.
 * Key to Dilobocondyla Species of the Philippines

Species richness
Species richness by country based on regional taxon lists (countries with darker colours are more species-rich). View Data



Nomenclature

 *  DILOBOCONDYLA [Myrmicinae: Formicoxenini]
 * Dilobocondyla Santschi, 1910h: 283. Type-species: Atopomyrmex selebensis, by subsequent designation of Wheeler, W.M. 1911f: 162.
 * Dilobocondyla senior synonym of Mesomyrma: Emery, 1912b: 102.
 * MESOMYRMA [junior synonym of Dilobocondyla]
 * Mesomyrma Stitz, 1911a: 363 [as subgenus of Podomyrma]. Type-species: Podomyrma (Mesomyrma) cataulacoidea, by monotypy.
 * Mesomyrma junior synonym of Dilobocondyla: Emery, 1912b: 102; Emery, 1924d: 240.