Myrmicocrypta, Smith, 1860

Mera-Rodríguez, Daniela, Serna, Francisco, Sosa-Calvo, Jeffrey, Lattke, John & Rabeling, Christian, 2020, A checklist of the non-leaf-cutting fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Colombia, with new biogeographic records, Check List 16 (5), pp. 1205-1227 : 1219

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.15560/16.5.1205
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4338324
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scientific name	Myrmicocrypta
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(29) Myrmicocrypta View in CoL sp. 1

Material examined. COLOMBIA: Cesar • 2 workers; Guacoche; 10°40′55″N, 073°17′29″W; alt. 250– 150 m; Jan. 2011; Y. Dominguez leg.; UNAB 4757 GoogleMaps .

Comment. This is a new species only known from two workers and will be described in a forthcoming taxono- mic study. This species corresponds to species Myrmicocrypta ca. ednaella in Sosa-Calvo (2015).

References

Sosa-Calvo J (2015) Systematics of the cryptic fungus-farming ant ge- nus Myrmicocrypta Fr. Smith, with the description of a new ge- nus and species of fungus-farming ants (Hymenoptera: Myrmicinae). PhD dissertation, University of Maryland, Maryland, 603 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.13016 / M 2 VS 6 M