Cyphomyrmex cochunae

Cyphomyrmex cochunae Kusnezov, 1949 junior synonym of current valid taxon Cyphomyrmex rimosus (Spinola, 1851)

Cyphomyrmex rimosus subsp. cochunae Kusnezov, 1949d: 439 (w.) ARGENTINA (Tucumán). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 216 syntype workers. Primary type localities: ca 170 workers Argentina: Rio Cochuna, Concepción road at Andalgalá, 6.v.1948, nos 1855, 1875 (N. Kusnezov), 1 worker Argentina: Tucumán, ca 22 km. S Tucumán, Calimayo lake, no. 1517 (N. Kusnezov), 45 workers Tucumán, Quebrada de la Sosa, nos 3468, 3476 (N. Kusnezov). Primary type depository: IMLT.

Status as species: Kusnezov, 1957e: 10 (in key).
Subspecies of Cyphomyrmex rimosus: Kusnezov, 1953c: 338; Kempf, 1966: 162; Kempf, 1972b: 93.
Junior synonym of Cyphomyrmex rimosus: Snelling & Longino, 1992: 491; Bolton, 1995b: 167.

Obsolete combinations

Cyphomyrmex rimosus cochunae

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
Kusnezov, N. 1949d. El género Cyphomyrmex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) en la Argentina. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 8:427-456. PDF
Kusnezov, N. 1953c. Lista de las hormigas de Tucumán con descripción de dos nuevos géneros (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Zoologica Lilloana 13:327-339. PDF
Kusnezov, N. 1957e. Nuevas especies de hormigas (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Revista de la Sociedad Uruguaya de Entomología 2:7-18. 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

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