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Cyphomyrmex major Forel 1901
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
(24) Cyphomyrmex major (Forel, 1901)
Figure 6G, H
Material examined. COLOMBIA: Antioquia • 3 gynes, 4 workers; Turbo; 08°05′53″N, 076°43′54″W; alt. 1 m; 15 Sep. 2004; O. Munar leg.; UNAB 2353; Santander • 4 gynes, 4 workers; Santa Helena del Opon; 06°20′00″N, 073°36′00″W; alt. 1426 m; Apr. 2012; A. Ardila leg.; UNAB 2526.
Identification. Mid-pronotal tubercle paired; cephalic posterolateral corner produced as broad lobe, not spinelike; frontal carina extending onto top lobe joining pos- terior carina; and anterior mesonotal tubercle high and obtuse (Snelling and Longino 1992).
Distribution.Cyphomyrmex major is known from Boli- via, Brazil (Amazonas, Rio Grande do Sul, Paraná, and São Paulo), Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela (Kempf 1972; Santos et al. 2017; Fernán- dez and Serna 2019).
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)
- Is part of
- 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 2353 , UNAB 2526
- Event date
- 2004-09-15
- Verbatim event date
- 2004-09-15
- Scientific name authorship
- Forel
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Cyphomyrmex
- Species
- major
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cyphomyrmex major Forel, 1901 sec. Mera-Rodríguez, Serna, Sosa-Calvo, Lattke & Rabeling, 2020
References
- Snelling RR, Longino JT (1992) Revisionary notes on the fungusgrowing ants of the genus Cyphomyrmex, rimosus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini). In: Quintero D, Aiello A (Eds) Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: selected studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 479 - 494.
- Kempf WW (1972) Catalogo abreviado das formigas da regiao neotro- pical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 15: 1 - 344.
- Santos Rde J, Koch EBA, Leite CMP, Porto TJ, Delabie JHC (2017) An assessment of leaf-litter and epigaeic ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) living in different landscapes of the Atlantic Forest Bi- ome in the State of Bahia, Brazil. Journal of Insect Biodiversity 5 (19): 1 - 19. https: // doi. org / 10.12976 / jib / 2017.5.19
- Serna F, Mera-Rodriguez LD, Ramirez-Ossa K, Gaigl A (2019) Hor- migas de mayor impacto en la agricultura colombiana. In: Fer- nandez F, Guerrero RJ, Delsinne T (Eds) Hormigas de Colombia. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, 1115 - 1149.