Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2021)
Extant: 6 valid species
Taxonomic history
Emery, 1924f PDF: 334 (diagnosis, catalogue);
Kempf, 1963b PDF: 417 (diagnosis, all species revision);
Kempf, 1972b PDF: 146 (catalogue);
Brandão, 1991 PDF: 358 (catalogue);
Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification);
Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1050 (census);
Bolton, 1995b: 269 (catalogue);
Mayhé-Nunes & Meneguete, 2000: 6 (all species key);
Mackay et al., 2004 PDF: 2 (North and Central America species key);
Rabeling et al., 2014 10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.048 PDF: 2050 (molecular phylogeny);
Cantone, 2017 PDF: 215 (brief male diagnosis);
Fernández & Serna, 2019 PDF: 862 (Colombia species key)
Taxon Page Images:
Inside the fungus garden of the asexual ant
Mycocepurus smithii. Panama
Image ©
Alex Wild.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Americas: Argentina,
Bolivia,
Brazil,
Colombia,
Costa Rica,
Cuba,
Dominican Republic,
El Salvador,
French Guiana,
Guadeloupe,
Guyana,
Honduras,
Mexico,
Nicaragua,
Panama,
Paraguay,
Peru,
Puerto Rico,
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
Venezuela Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Nearctic,
Neotropical Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records)
: Nearctic,
Neotropical
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
Mycocepurus |
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Kempf, W. W., 1963, A review of the ant genus Mycocepurus Forel, 1893 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Studia Entomologica (N. S.) 6, pp. 417-432: 418-419, (download) |
418-419 |
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Mycocepurus |
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Forel, A., 1893, Formicides de l'Antille St. Vincent. Récoltées par Mons. H. H. Smith., Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1893, pp. 333-418: 369, (download) |
369 |
3948
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