Cephalotes umbraculatus (Fabricius, 1804)

Oliveira, Aline Machado, Powell, Scott & Feitosa, Rodrigo Machado, 2021, A taxonomic study of the Brazilian turtle ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Cephalotes), Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 65 (3), No. e 20210028, pp. 1-52 : 45

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https://doi.org/ 10.1590/1806-9665-RBENT-2021-0028

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5512351

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scientific name

Cephalotes umbraculatus
status

 

The umbraculatus View in CoL species group

( Fig. 53 View Figure 53 )

The monotypicumbraculatus group was created by Kempf (1958a). He discussed the position of the species, which shares characters with the angustus and pinelii groups, but is different enough to be separated from them. Kempf’s proposal was corroborated by the morphological and molecular phylogenies (De Andrade and Baroni-Urbani, 1999, see their Fig. 24 View Figure 24 ; Priceet al., 2014, 2016, see their Fig. S3 View Figure 3 ), both phylogenies recover this species as a monophyletic lineage. The recent molecular phylogenies byPrice et al. (2014, 2016) recovered umbraculatus as a sister group of the clade formed by the angustus , fiebrigi and prodigiosus groups ( Fig. 54 View Figure54 ). Cephalotes umbraculatus is broadly distributed in Central America and north of South America.

Diagnosis: In workers, body with appressed hairs. Dorsal and declivous face of propodeum continuous, not meeting in a distinct propodeal angle, with a variable number of spines. Dorsum of petiole without denticles. Gaster yellowish with a cross-shaped dark macula, anteriorly with lamellarexpansions ( Fig. 2p View Figure 2 ). In soldiers, in dorsal view, pronotum crest with pointed edges ( Fig. 3f View Figure 3 ).

Brazilian species of umbraculatusgroup

Cephalotes umbraculatus (Fabricius, 1804)

Obsolete combination: Cryptocerus umbraculatus = Cephalotes elegans (Smith, 1853)

Obsolete combination: Cryptocerus elegans = Cephalotes flavomaculatus (Mayr, 1862)

Obsolete combination: Cryptocerus flavomaculatus = Cephalotes View in CoL quadriguttatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1844) Obsolete combination: Cryptocerus quadriguttatus

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Cephalotes

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