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Cyphomyrmex laevigatus Weber 1938
Authors/Creators
- 1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Museo Entomológico UNAB, Grupo Sistemática de Insectos Agronomía (SIA), Carrera 30 # 45 - 03, Bogotá D. C., 111321, Colombia; School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 427 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA.
- 2. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Museo Entomológico UNAB, Grupo Sistemática de Insectos Agronomía (SIA), Carrera 30 # 45 - 03, Bogotá D. C., 111321, Colombia
- 3. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 427 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA; Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, NHB CE 516, MRC 188, 1000 Constitution Ave NW, Washington DC 20560, USA.
- 4. Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, CEP 81531 - 980, Curitiba, PR, 19020, Brazil
- 5. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 427 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA.
Description
(23) Cyphomyrmex laevigatus Weber, 1938
Figure 6E, F
Material examined. COLOMBIA: Caquetá • 1 worker; Florencia; 01°30′9.99″N, 075°36′22″W; alt. 250 m; 28 Sep. 2016; UNAB members leg.; UNAB 4367.
Identification. Mesosoma completely unarmed, propodeum in profile evenly rounded; and petiolar node in dor- sal view strikingly transverse, thrice as broad as long (Kempf 1965).
Distribution.Cyphomyrmex laevigatus is widely distributed in northern South America, including Bolivia, north- ern Brazil (Amazonas, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Pará, and Rondônia), Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Perú and Ven- ezuela (Mayhé-Nuñes and Jaffé 1998; Souza et al. 2018).
Notes
Published as part of Mera-Rodríguez, Daniela, Serna, Francisco, Sosa-Calvo, Jeffrey, Lattke, John & Rabeling, Christian, 2020, A checklist of the non-leaf-cutting fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Colombia, with new biogeographic records, pp. 1205-1227 in Check List 16 (5) on page 1215, DOI: 10.15560/16.5.1205, http://zenodo.org/record/4059086
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- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4069336 (DOI)
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- Journal article: 10.15560/16.5.1205 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4059086 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF8DFFA55806FFA5FC1A0F355605053C (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- UNAB
- Material sample ID
- UNAB 4367
- Event date
- 2016-09-28
- Verbatim event date
- 2016-09-28
- Scientific name authorship
- Weber
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Cyphomyrmex
- Species
- laevigatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cyphomyrmex laevigatus Weber, 1938 sec. Mera-Rodríguez, Serna, Sosa-Calvo, Lattke & Rabeling, 2020
References
- Weber NA (1938) The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part IV. Additional new forms. Part V. The Attini of Bolivia. Revista de Entomologia 9 (1 - 2): 154 - 206.
- Kempf WW (1965) Arevision of the Neotropical fungus-growing ants of the genus Cyphomyrmex Mayr. Part II. Group of rimosus (Spinola) (Hym. Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 8: 161 - 200.
- Mayhe-Nunes A, Jaffe K (1998) On the biogeography of Attini (Hyme- noptera: Formicidae). Ecotropicos 11 (1): 45 - 54.
- Souza JLP, Baccaro FB, Pequeno PACL, Franklin E, Magnusson WE (2018) Effectiveness of genera as a higher-taxon substitute for spe- cies in ant biodiversity analyses is not affected by sampling tech- nique. Biodiversity and Conservation 27 (13): 3425 - 3445. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10531 - 018 - 1607 - x