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Genus: Cyphomyrmex

Name Status: Valid Name

Taxonomic Hierarchy:

Subfamily: Myrmicinae Genus: Cyphomyrmex

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Extant: 39 species

Fossil: 2 species

Cyphomyrmex Mayr, 1862 PDF: 651 (diagnosis in key), 690 Type-species: Cyphomyrmex minutus, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

[Type-species not Cryptocerus rimosus, unjustified subsequent designation by Wheeler, 1911g PDF: 161. Type-species not Meranoplus difformis, unjustified subsequent designation by Emery, 1924f PDF: 340.].

Cyphomyrmex in Formicinae: Mayr, 1862 PDF: 651 (in key) [Formicidae].

Cyphomyrmex in Myrmicidae, Cryptoceridae: Emery, 1877b PDF: 81.

Cyphomyrmex in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865: 25 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 149.

Cyphomyrmex in Cryptoceridae, Dacetonini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 384.

Cyphomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Attini: Forel, 1893b PDF: 164; Emery, 1895l PDF: 770; Forel, 1899b: 40; Wheeler, 1907d PDF: 670; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 141; Emery, 1913c PDF: 251; Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917 PDF: 247; Wheeler, 1922: 669; Emery, 1924f PDF: 339; all subsequent authors.

Cyphomyrmex as junior synonym of Cataulacus: Roger, 1863b PDF: 39.

Cyphomyrmex as subgenus of Atta: Forel, 1912f PDF: 188.

Cyphomyrmex as genus: Mayr, 1862 PDF: 690; Mayr, 1863a PDF: 406; Emery, 1913c PDF: 251; Bruch, 1914 PDF: 217; Emery, 1914e: 42; Wheeler, 1922: 669; Emery, 1924f PDF: 339; all subsequent authors.

Genus Cyphomyrmex references

Mayr, 1863a PDF: 406 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 25 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1887 PDF: 556 (all species key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 149 (catalogue); Emery, 1924f PDF: 340 (diagnosis, subgenera key, catalogue); Kusnezov, 1949d PDF: 436 (Argentina species key); Weber, 1940b PDF: 408 (all species key); Creighton, 1950a PDF: 316 (North America species key); Kusnezov, 1957e PDF: 9 (Neotropical species, partial key); Kempf, 1962b PDF: 30 (species groups); Kempf, 1964d PDF: 5 (Cyphomyrmex strigatus group revision, key); Kempf, 1966 PDF: 161 (Cyphomyrmex rimosus group revision, key); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 92 (Neotropical catalogue); Smith, 1979: 1410 (North America catalogue); Brandão, 1991 PDF: 339 (catalogue); Snelling & Longino, 1992 PDF: 480 (Cyphomyrmex rimosus group revision, key); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1049 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 167 (catalogue); Mackay & MacKay, 2002 PDF: 38 (U.S.A., New Mexico species key).

Genus Cyphomyrmex references