Genus: Mycetophylax

Current Valid Name:

Extant: 21 valid species

Mycetophylax Emery, 1913c PDF: 251 [as subgenus of Cyphomyrmex]. Type-species: Myrmicocrypta brittoni, by original designation. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Genus Mycetophylax references

Santschi, 1922c PDF: 357 (species key); Emery, 1924f PDF: 343 (diagnosis, catalogue); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 145 (catalogue); Brandão, 1991 PDF: 357 (catalogue); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 268 (catalogue); Klingenberg & Brandão, 2009 PDF: 7 (diagnosis, key to species); Sosa-Calvo et al., 2017 10.1371/journal.pone.0176498 PDF (phylogeny, genus redefinition); Cantone, 2017 PDF: 214 (brief male diagnosis); Fernández & Serna, 2019 PDF: 859 (Colombia species)

// Distribution

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Americas: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Neotropical
  Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records):
    Neotropical

Scientific Name	Status	Publication	Pages	ModsID	GoogleMaps
Mycetophylax		Klingenberg, C. & Brandão, C. R. F., 2009, Revision of the fungus-growing ant genera Mycetophylax Emery and Paramycetophylax Kusnezov rev. stat., and description of Kalathomyrmex n. gen. (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini)., Zootaxa 2052, pp. 1-31: 4-5, (download)	4-5	22676
Mycetophylax		Klingenberg, C. & Brandão, C. R. F., 2009, Revision of the fungus-growing ant genera Mycetophylax Emery and Paramycetophylax Kusnezov rev. stat., and description of Kalathomyrmex n. gen. (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini)., Zootaxa 2052, pp. 1-31: 5-7, (download)	5-7	22676