Mycetophylax
Emery, 1913
valid
masculine
Mycetophylax
Emery, 1913c:
251
[as subgenus of Cyphomyrmex]
Type-species:
Myrmicocrypta brittoni (now: junior synonym of Mycetophylax conformis), by original designation.
- Mycetophylax in Myrmicinae, Attini: Emery, 1913c: 251; Emery, 1924f: 343; all subsequent authors.
- Mycetophylax as subgenus of Cyphomyrmex: Emery, 1913c: 251; Forel, 1917: 247; Emery, 1924f: 343; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 663.
- Mycetophylax as subgenus of Myrmicocrypta: Gallardo, 1916e: 320.
- Mycetophylax as genus: Santschi, 1923c: 268; Weber, 1958e: 262; Kusnezov, 1964: 63; Kempf, 1972b: 145.
Obsolete classifications
Genus Mycetophylax references
Santschi, 1922c: 357 (species key); Emery, 1924f: 343 (diagnosis, catalogue); Kempf, 1972b: 145 (catalogue); Brandão, 1991: 357 (catalogue); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 268 (catalogue); Klingenberg & Brandão, 2009: 7 (diagnosis, key to species); Sosa-Calvo et al., 2017 (phylogeny, genus redefinition); Cantone, 2017: 214 (brief male diagnosis); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 859 (Colombia species)
Citations
- 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
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)10:617-688.
- Emery, C. 1913c. Études sur les Myrmicinae. [V-VII.]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:250-262. 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. 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. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 51:229-253. PDF
- Gallardo, A. 1916e. Notes systématiques et éthologiques sur les fourmis attines de la République Argentine. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 28:317-344. PDF
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
- Klingenberg, C.; Brandão, C. R. F. 2009. Revision of the fungus-growing ant genera Mycetophylax Emery and Paramycetophylax Kusnezov rev. stat., and description of Kalathomyrmex n. gen. (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini). Zootaxa 2052:1-31. PDF
- Kusnezov, N. 1964 ("1963"). Zoogeografía de las hormigas en Sudamérica. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 19:25-186. PDF
- Santschi, F. 1922c. Myrmicines, dolichodérines et autres formicides néotropiques. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 54:345-378. PDF
- Santschi, F. 1923c. Solenopsis et autres fourmis néotropicales. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 30:245-273. PDF
- Sosa-Calvo, J.; Ješovnik, A.; Vasconcelos, H. L.; Bacci, M., Jr.; Schultz, T. R. 2017. Rediscovery of the enigmatic fungus-farming ant "Mycetosoritis" asper Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Implications for taxonomy, phylogeny, and the evolution of agriculture in ants. PLoS ONE 12 (5):29 pp. e0176498. 10.1371/journal.pone.0176498 PDF
- Weber, N. A. 1958e. Some attine synonyms and types (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 60:259-264. PDF
Extant: 21 valid species
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