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Genus: Sericomyrmex   Mayr, 1865 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

11 species, 1 subspecies

Sericomyrmex Mayr, 1865 PDF: 18. Type-species: Sericomyrmex opacus, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Sericomyrmex in Myrmicidae, Attidae: Emery, 1877b PDF: 81.
Sericomyrmex in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865 PDF: 18 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 150.
Sericomyrmex in Cryptoceridae, Attinae: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 384.
Sericomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Attini: Forel, 1893b PDF: 164; Emery, 1895l PDF: 770; Forel, 1899B: 37; Wheeler, 1910a: 141; Emery, 1913c PDF: 251; Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917 PDF: 247; Wheeler, 1922: 669; Emery, 1924f: 338; all subsequent authors.
Genus Sericomyrmex references
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 150 (catalogue); Forel, 1912f PDF: 191 (all species key); Wheeler, 1916c PDF: 10 (all species key); Emery, 1924f: 338 (diagnosis, catalogue); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 229 (catalogue); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1052 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 382 (catalogue); Jesovnik & Schultz, 2017 10.3897/zookeys.670.11839 PDF:1 (diagnosis, revision, all species key).

Taxon Page Images:



Sericomyrmex amabilis. An ant worker tends to brood in the fungus garden. Note how the eggs and larvae are embedded within the fluffy white hyphae of the fungus. Parque Soberania, Panama; Laboratory colony at the University of Texas.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Neotropical bioregion.

Nearctic Region: San Luis Potosí
Neotropical Region: Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Amazonas, Amazonas, Americas, Antioquia, Bahia, Bolivia, Bolívar, Bolívar, Brazil, Brokopondo, Caquetá, Carabobo, Caribbean, Cauca, Central America, Chiapas, Chiriquí, Colombia, Colón, Copán, Costa Caribe Norte, Costa Caribe Sur, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cundinamarca, Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Darién, Dominica, Ecuador, El Beni, Escuintla, Esmeraldas, Espírito Santo, Francisco Morazán, French Guiana, Goiás, Gracias a Dios, Guadeloupe, Guanacaste, Guatemala, Guyana, Heredia, Honduras, Huánuco, Izabal, La Guajira, Loja, Los Ríos, Madre de Dios, Magdalena, Manabí, Maranhão, Masaya, Matagalpa, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Meta, Mexico, Minas Gerais, Nicaragua, Nickerie, Olancho, Orellana, Panama, Panamá, Panamá Oeste, Paraguay, Paraná, Pará, Pernambuco, Peru, Petén, Piauí, Potaro-Siparuni, Puntarenas, Putumayo, Retalhuleu, Rio de Janeiro, Rondônia, Río San Juan, Saint Peter, San Juan-Laventille, San Martín, Santa Cruz, Sergipe, Sipaliwini, South America, Sucumbíos, Suriname, São Paulo, Tocantins, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunapuna-Piarco, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo, Valle del Cauca, Vaupés, Venezuela, Veracruz, Vichada, Zacapa, Zamora-Chinchipe

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Sericomyrmex   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 36, (download) 36 21367
Sericomyrmex   Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53, pp. 484-517: 22, (download) 22 4365


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