Mycocepurus
Forel, 1893
valid
masculine
Mycocepurus
Forel, 1893h:
602
[as subgenus of Atta]
Type-species:
Atta smithii (obsolete combination of Mycocepurus smithii), by subsequent designation of Wheeler, 1911g: 167.
- [Mycocepurus Forel, 1893b: 164, nomen nudum. Mycocepurus also described as new by Forel, 1893j: 369.]
- Mycocepurus in Myrmicinae: Forel, 1893j: 369.
- Mycocepurus in Cryptoceridae, Dacetonini: Ashmead, 1905c: 384.
- Mycocepurus in Myrmicinae, Attini: Emery, 1895l: 770; Wheeler, 1910a: 141; Emery, 1913c: 251; Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917: 247; Wheeler, 1922: 669; Emery, 1924f: 334; all subsequent authors.
- Mycocepurus as subgenus of Atta: Forel, 1893h: 602; Forel, 1893j: 369; Wheeler, 1907d: 670; Wheeler, 1910a: 141.
- Mycocepurus as genus: Wheeler, 1911g: 167; Emery, 1913c: 251; Forel, 1917: 247; Wheeler, 1922: 669; Emery, 1924f: 334; all subsequent authors.
- [Mycetopurus: incorrect subsequent spelling by Santschi, 1925b: 17. (Perhaps an error of merging Myceto(phylax) + (Mycoce)purus: Bolton, 1995b: 36).]
- [Mycocepurus: incorrect subsequent spelling by Luederwaldt, 1918: 39.]
Junior synonyms
- Descolemyrma Kusnezov, 1951
Obsolete classifications
Genus Mycocepurus references
Emery, 1924f: 334 (diagnosis, catalogue); Kempf, 1963b: 417 (diagnosis, all species revision); Kempf, 1972b: 146 (catalogue); Brandão, 1991: 358 (catalogue); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 269 (catalogue); Mayhé-Nunes & Meneguete, 2000: 6 (all species key); Mackay et al., 2004: 2 (North and Central America species key); Rabeling et al., 2014: 2050 (molecular phylogeny); Cantone, 2017: 215 (brief male diagnosis); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 862 (Colombia species key)
Citations
- Ashmead, W. H. 1905c. A skeleton of a new arrangement of the families, subfamilies, tribes and genera of the ants, or the superfamily Formicoidea. Canadian Entomologist 37:381-384. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
- Bolton, B. 1995a. A taxonomic and zoogeographical census of the extant ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 29:1037-1056. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
- Cantone, S. 2017. Winged ants – The male. Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the world. Behavioral ecology of mating flight. São Paulo: Autopubblicato, 318 pp. PDF
- Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 8:685-778. PDF
- Emery, C. 1913c. Études sur les Myrmicinae. [V-VII.]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:250-262. PDF
- Emery, C. 1914e. Intorno alla classificazione dei Myrmicinae. Rendiconti delle Sessioni della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna. Classe di Scienze Fisiche (n.s.)18:29-42. PDF
- Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
- 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
- Forel, A. 1893b. Sur la classification de la famille des Formicides, avec remarques synonymiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 37:161-167. PDF
- Forel, A. 1893h. Note sur les Attini. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 37:586-607. PDF
- Forel, A. 1893j. Formicides de l'Antille St. Vincent, récoltées par Mons. H. H. Smith. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1893:333-418. PDF
- Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 51:229-253. PDF
- Kempf, W. W. 1963b. A review of the ant genus Mycocepurus Forel, 1893 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 6:417-432. PDF
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
- Luederwaldt, H. 1918. Notas myrmecologicas. Revista do Museu Paulista 10:29-64. PDF
- Mackay, W. P.; Maes, J.-M.; Rojas Fernández, P.; Luna, G. 2004. The ants of North and Central America: the genus Mycocepurus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Insect Science 4 (27):7 pp. PDF
- Mayhé-Nunes, A. J.; Meneguete, P. S. 2000. Definição de termos para as projeções mesossomais das operarias de Mycocepurus Forel, 1893 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Contribuições Avulsas sobre a Historia Natural do Brasil. Serie Zoologia 27:1-7.
- Rabeling, C.; Schultz, T. R.; Pierce, N. E.; Bacci, M., Jr. 2014. A social parasite evolved reproductive isolation from its fungus-growing ant host in sympatry. Current Biology 24 (7):2047-2052. 10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.048 PDF
- Santschi, F. 1925b ("1924"). Nouvelles fourmis brésiliennes. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 64:5-20. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1907d. The fungus-growing ants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23:669-807. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1911g. A list of the type species of the genera and subgenera of Formicidae. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 21:157-175. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
Extant: 6 valid species
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