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Taxonomic history
Scientific Name | Status | Publication | Pages | ModsID | GoogleMaps |
Cyphomyrmex minutus | Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 33, (download) | 33 | 21367 | ||
Cyphomyrmex minutus | n. sp. | Mayr, G., 1862, Myrmecologische Studien., Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12, pp. 649-776: 691, (download) | 691 | 4445 | |
Cyphomyrmex minutus | new status | Snelling, R. R. & Longino, J. T., 1992, Revisionary notes on the fungus-growing ants of the genus Cyphomyrmex, rimosus-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini)., Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: selected studies., Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 479-494: 490, (download) | 490 | 13137 |
Found most commonly in these habitats: 5 times found in roadside, 4 times found in disturbed broadleaf moist forest, 3 times found in garden/bamboo, 2 times found in mature secondary broadleaf forest, 3 times found in premontane rainforest, 1 times found in secondary broadleaf forest, 1 times found in garden/roadside, 2 times found in leaf litter, 2 times found in scrubby flatwoods, 2 times found in Flatwoods, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 10 times under stone, 12 times leaf litter, 7 times under rock, 2 times nest under rock, 1 times foragers on sidewalk, 1 times on orchids, 1 times on ground, 1 times nest in rotten log, 1 times litter under fern and bushes, 1 times litter, 1 times in soil, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 8 times hand collecting, 11 times direct collection, 8 times Berlese, 5 times Davis sifting, 3 times pitfall, 3 times search, 3 times DaJuns sifting, 2 times Winkler, 1 times at bait|jelly.
Elevations: collected from 1 - 2680 meters, 200 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1936-07-20 and 2017-07-04
Type specimens: Holotype of Cyphomyrmex minutus: casent0919613; Holotype of Cyphomyrmex steinheili: casent0909377; syntype of Atta rimosa atrata: casent0901676, casent0909378; type of Atta (Cyphomyrmex) rimosa r. atrata: focol0768, focol1768, focol1769; type of Cyphomyrmex minutus: focol1764, focol1765, focol1766