Cyphomyrmex colombianus

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Cyphomyrmex colombianus Weber, 1940 junior synonym of current valid taxon Cyphomyrmex costatus Mann, 1922

Cyphomyrmex colombianus Weber, 1940b: 408 (diagnosis in key), 413 (w.q.) COLOMBIA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 1 syntype worker, 3 syntype queens. Primary type locality: Colombia: Cordillera Central, Rio Porce, El Homiguero Mine, 3000-3200 ft, 17.vii.1938, 18.vii.1938, and 1.viii.1938 (N.A. Weber). Primary type depository: MCZC.

Status as species: Weber, 1966a: 167.
Junior synonym of Cyphomyrmex costatus: Kempf, 1966: 172; Kempf, 1972b: 92; Bolton, 1995b: 167.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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
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
Weber, N. A. 1966a. The subgenus Cyphomannia Weber 1938 of Cyphomyrmex Mayr 1862, reinstated, and systematic notes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological News 77:166-168. PDF

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