Cyphomyrmex foxi

Cyphomyrmex foxi André, 1892 valid

Cyphomyrmex foxi André, 1892a: 55 (w.) JAMAICA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Snelling & Longino, 1992: 487). Primary type locality: lectotype Jamaica: (no further data) (J.W. Fox?). Primary type depository: MNHN. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 3 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MNHN. Type notes: Snelling & Longino, 1992: 487, cite 4 worker syntypes (now lectotype + paralectotypes), but in the original description André, 1892a says, “I received two specimens of this ant from Mr J.W. Fox of Philadelphia”.

Lectotype designation: Snelling & Longino, 1992: 487.
Wheeler, 1917g: 461 (q.)
Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 150; Wheeler, 1905c: 129; Wheeler, 1908b: 162; Wheeler, 1911a: 29; Wheeler, 1917g: 461; Emery, 1924f: 341; Weber, 1940b: 409 (in key); Kempf, 1966: 186 (redescription); Weber, 1966a: 168; Kempf, 1972b: 92; Snelling & Longino, 1992: 487; Bolton, 1995b: 167.

Citations

André, Ern. 1892a. Matériaux myrmécologiques. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 11:45-56. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. 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
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
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
Wheeler, W. M. 1905c. The ants of the Bahamas, with a list of the known West Indian species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21:79-135. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1908b. The ants of Jamaica. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:159-163. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1911a. Additions to the ant-fauna of Jamaica. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 30:21-29. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1917g. Jamaican ants collected by Prof. C. T. Brues. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 61:457-471. PDF