Published September 22, 2020 | Version v1
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Myrmicocrypta Smith 1860

  • 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

(29) Myrmicocrypta sp. 1

Material examined. COLOMBIA: Cesar • 2 workers; Guacoche; 10°40′55″N, 073°17′29″W; alt. 250– 150 m; Jan. 2011; Y. Dominguez leg.; UNAB 4757.

Comment. This is a new species only known from two workers and will be described in a forthcoming taxono- mic study. This species corresponds to species Myrmicocrypta ca. ednaella in Sosa-Calvo (2015).

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 1219, DOI: 10.15560/16.5.1205, http://zenodo.org/record/4059086

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Biodiversity

Collection code
UNAB
Material sample ID
UNAB 4757
Scientific name authorship
Smith
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Formicidae
Genus
Myrmicocrypta
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Myrmicocrypta Smith, 1860 sec. Mera-Rodríguez, Serna, Sosa-Calvo, Lattke & Rabeling, 2020

References

  • Sosa-Calvo J (2015) Systematics of the cryptic fungus-farming ant ge- nus Myrmicocrypta Fr. Smith, with the description of a new ge- nus and species of fungus-farming ants (Hymenoptera: Myrmicinae). PhD dissertation, University of Maryland, Maryland, 603 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.13016 / M 2 VS 6 M