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Genus: Cyphomyrmex   Mayr, 1862 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

Extant: 23 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: 340.].
Cyphomyrmex in Formicinae: Mayr, 1862 PDF: 651 (in key) [Formicidae].
Cyphomyrmex in Myrmicidae, Cryptoceridae: Emery, 1877b PDF: 81.
Cyphomyrmex in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865 PDF: 25 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 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: 141; Emery, 1913c PDF: 251; Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917 PDF: 247; Wheeler, 1922: 669; Emery, 1924f: 339; all subsequent authors.
Cyphomyrmex as junior synonym of Cataulacus: Roger, 1863b: 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: 339; all subsequent authors.
Genus Cyphomyrmex references
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 406 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865 PDF: 25 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1887 PDF: 556 (all species key); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 149 (catalogue); Emery, 1924f: 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).

Taxon Page Images:



Some Cyphomyrmex species cultivate their fungus as a yeast, visible here as little white globules. Mindo, Ecuador
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Nearctic, Neotropical bioregions.

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Eastern Africa
Malagasy Region: Reunion
Nearctic Region: Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North America, Nuevo León, Texas, United States
Neotropical Region: Alajuela, Alta Verapaz, Americas, Aragua, Argentina, Atlántida, Bahamas, Bahia, Barbados, Barinas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canindeyú, Caquetá, Caribbean, Cartago, Cayo, Ceará, Central America, Chiapas, Chiriquí, Chocó, Chontales, Coclé, Colombia, Comayagua, Cortés, Costa Caribe Norte, Costa Caribe Sur, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cusco, Córdoba, Darién, Dominican Republic, Duarte, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Galapagos Islands, Galápagos, Gracias a Dios, Guadeloupe, Guanacaste, Guantánamo, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Heredia, Honduras, Huehuetenango, Izabal, Jalisco, Jamaica, Jinotega, La Guajira, La Libertad, Limón, Los Ríos, Madre de Dios, Magdalena, Martinique, María Trinidad Sánchez, Matagalpa, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mexico, Misiones, Morelos, Nacional, Napo, Nayarit, Nicaragua, Oaxaca, Ocotepeque, Olancho, Panama, Paraguay, Pará, Peru, Petén, Pichincha, Presidente Hayes, Puerto Rico, Puntarenas, Putumayo, Quiché, Retalhuleu, Rio de Janeiro, Risaralda, Roraima, Saint Ann, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San José, San Luis, Santa Catarina, Santa Cruz, Sinaloa, South America, Suchitepéquez, Suriname, Trelawny, Trinidad and Tobago, Trujillo, Uruguay, Valle del Cauca, Venezuela, Veracruz, Zacapa

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Cyphomyrmex   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 33, (download) 33 21367
Cyphomyrmex   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 33, (download) 33 21367
Cyphomyrmex   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: 479-484, (download) 479-484 13137
Cyphomyrmex   Kempf, W. W., 1964, A revision of the Neotropical fungus-growing ants of the genus Cyphomyrmex Mayr. Part I. Group of strigatus Mayr (Hym., Formicidae)., Studia Entomologica (N. S.) 7, pp. 1-44: 3-7, (download) 3-7 4576
Cyphomyrmex   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 33, (download) 33 21367
Cyphomyrmex   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 33, (download) 33 21367
Cyphomyrmex n. g.  Mayr, G., 1862, Myrmecologische Studien., Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12, pp. 649-776: 690, (download) 690 4445
Cyphomyrmex   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 33, (download) 33 21367
Cyphomyrmex   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 32, (download) 32 21008
Cyphomyrmex   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 33, (download) 33 21367
Cyphomyrmex   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 33, (download) 33 21367


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