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Cyphomyrmex hamulatus Weber 1938

  • 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

(22) Cyphomyrmex hamulatus Weber, 1938

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Material examined. COLOMBIA: Antioquia • 12 workers; Amalfi; 06°54′11″N, 075°05′26.7″W; alt. 1010 m; 19 Dec. 1999; F. Sernaleg.; UNAB 4750; Antioquia • 1 worker; Amalfi; 06°46′31″N, 075°05′33″W; alt. 1010 m; Jul–Oct. 1997; F. Sernaleg.; UNAB 4750; Antioquia • 2 workers; Amalfi; 06°45′57.6″N, 075°06′25.02″W; alt. 955 m; Sep. 2006; M. A. Vanegas leg.; MEFLG 11080; Antioquia • 1 worker; Amalfi; 06°47′57.82″N, 075°07′18.96″W; alt. 1077 m; Nov. 2006; M. A. Vanegas leg.; MEFLG 11081; Antioquia • 5 gynes, 11 workers; Amalfi; 06°47′43″N, 075°07′56″W; alt. 1550 m; 27 Oct. 1997; F. Sernaleg.; MEFLG 5843; Antioquia • 10 workers; Amalfi; 06°46′19.2″N, 075°05′26.44″W; alt. 1550 m; 30 Jul. 1997; F. Sernaleg.; MEFLG 5843; Caquetá • 1 worker; El Doncello; 01°40′48″N, 075°17′06″W; alt. 500 m; 16 Nov. 2013; F. Sernaleg.; UNAB 4368; Caquetá • 3 workers; Florencia; 01°25′34.7″N, 075°30′59″W; alt. 267 m; Sep. 2017; D. Mera-Rodríguez leg.; UNAB 4750; Caquetá • 2 workers; Florencia; 01°30′9.99″N, 075°36′23″W; alt. 250 m; 28 Sep. 2016; UNAB mem- bers leg.; UNAB 4369; Sucre • 2 workers; Ovejas; 09°32′4.1′00″N, 075°13′18.5″W; alt. 277 m; 4 Feb. 2016; H. Cadena leg.; MEFLG 40890 – 408901.

Identification. Frontal carina quite sinuous; all carina very sharp and somewhat foliaceous; promesonotal tu- bercles acutely pointed; hind femur angulates at basal third, posteroventral border with a narrow foliaceous crest; postpetiole with a shallow mid-dorsal impression, hairs on head and gaster recurvate or hook-like, not ap- pressed; and tubercles on mesosoma sharply pointed (Kempf 1965).

Distribution.Cyphomyrmex hamulatus is distributed throughout Bolivia, Brazil (Amazonas and Pará), Co- lombia, Costa Rica, Peru, and Venezuela (Brandão 1991; Snelling and Longino 1992; Fernández and Sendoya 2004).

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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References

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  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • Fernandez F, Sendoya S (2004) Synonymic list of Neotropical ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Biota Colombiana 5 (1): 3 - 105.