Cyphomyrmex longiscapus

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Cyphomyrmex longiscapus Weber, 1940 valid

Cyphomyrmex longiscapus Weber, 1940b: 410 (diagnosis in key) (w.) COLOMBIA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Kempf, 1966: 165). Primary type locality: lectotype Colombia: Cordillera Central, Rio Porce, 3400 ft, 3.viii.1938, no. 1088 (N.A. Weber). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 3 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MCZC. Type notes: Kempf, 1966: 166, implies that other original syntypes (now paralectotypes) are present in MZSP.

Lectotype designation: Kempf, 1966: 165.
Schultz et al., 2002: 335 (q.m.)
Status as species: Kempf, 1966: 165 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 93; Snelling & Longino, 1992: 491; Bolton, 1995b: 168; Schultz et al., 2002: 333 (redescription); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 850.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Fernández, F.; Serna, F. J. 2019. Subfamilia Myrmicinae. Capítulo 27. Pp. 791-888 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1966 ("1965"). A revision of the Neotropical fungus-growing ants of the genus Cyphomyrmex Mayr. Part II: Group of rimosus (Spinola) (Hym., Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 8:161-200. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Schultz, T. R.; Solomon, S. A.; Mueller, U. G.; Villesen, P.; Boomsma, J. J.; Adams, R. M. M.; Norden, B. 2002. Cryptic speciation in the fungus-growing ants Cyphomyrmex longiscapus Weber and Cyphomyrmex muelleri Schultz and Solomon, new species (Formicidae, Attini). Insectes Sociaux 49:331-343. PDF
Snelling, R. R.; Longino, J. T. 1992. Revisionary notes on the fungus-growing ants of the genus Cyphomyrmex, rimosus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini). Pp. 479-494 in: Quintero, D.; Aiello, A. (eds.) 1992. Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: selected studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xxii + 692 pp. PDF
Weber, N. A. 1940b. The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part VI. Key to Cyphomyrmex, new Attini and a new guest ant. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 11:406-427. PDF

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