Genus: Myrmicocrypta

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

27 species, 4 subspecies

Myrmicocrypta Smith, 1860c PDF: 73. Type-species: Myrmicocrypta squamosa, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Myrmicocrypta in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865 PDF: 25 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 150.

Myrmicocrypta in Cryptoceridae, Attinae: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 384.

Myrmicocrypta in Myrmicinae, Attini: Forel, 1893b PDF: 164; Emery, 1895l PDF: 770; Forel, 1899B: 38; Wheeler, 1910a: 141; Emery, 1913c PDF: 251; Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917 PDF: 247; Wheeler, 1922: 669; Emery, 1924f: 335; all subsequent authors.

Genus Myrmicocrypta references

Roger, 1863b: 35 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a PDF: 436 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865 PDF: 25 (diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 149, 150 (Glyptomyrmex, Myrmicocrypta catalogues); Emery, 1924f: 335 (diagnosis catalogue); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 151 (catalogue); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1051 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 286 (catalogue); Sosa-Calvo & Schultz, 2010 PDF: 183 (diagnosis).

Taxon Page Images:

A Myrmicocrypta worker carries excavated soil out of her nest. Jatun Sacha reserve, Napo, Ecuador.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

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

Neotropical Region: Americas, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canindeyú, Caribbean, Central America, Chiriquí, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Huánuco, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mexico, Minas Gerais, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Retalhuleu, Rondônia, Santa Catarina, South America, Suriname, Tabasco, Trinidad and Tobago, Veracruz