Mycetophylax plaumanni

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Mycetophylax plaumanni (Kempf, 1962) valid

Cyphomyrmex plaumanni Kempf, 1962b: 31, figs. 29-31 (w.) BRAZIL (Santa Catarina). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: Santa Catarina, Nova Teutônia, x.1955 (F. Plaumann). Primary type depository: MZSP. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 3 paratype workers. Secondary type localities: 1 paratype worker Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul, Barros-Cassal, ix.1960 (F. Plaumann), 1 paratype worker Rio Grande do Sul, Erechim, vii.1960 (F. Plaumann), 1 paratype worker Brazil: Paraná, Rio Azul, 1000 m., x.1959 (F. Plaumann). Secondary type depository: MZSP.

Combination in Mycetophylax: Sosa-Calvo et al., 2017: 9
Status as species: Kempf, 1964d: 16 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 93; Bolton, 1995b: 168; Sosa-Calvo et al., 2017: 9.

Obsolete combinations

Cyphomyrmex plaumanni

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Kempf, W. W. 1962b. Miscellaneous studies on neotropical ants. II. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 5:1-38. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1964d. A revision of the Neotropical fungus-growing ants of the genus Cyphomyrmex Mayr. Part I: Group of strigatus Mayr (Hym., Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 7:1-44. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. 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

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