Mycocepurus smithii (Forel, 1893)

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 : 1217

(27) Mycocepurus smithii (Forel, 1893)

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Material examined. COLOMBIA: Antioquia • 1 work- er; Amalfi; 06°45′42.23″N, 075°05′31.57″W; alt. 983 m; Sep. 2006; M.A. Vanegas leg.; MEFLG 11088 ; Antioquia • 1 worker; Santafé de Antioquia; 06°33′41″N, 075° 49′54″W; alt. 600 m; 06 Oct. 2000; E. Vergara, F. Ser- na leg.; UNAB 4756 ; Antioquia • 2 workers; Turbo; 08°05′53″N, 076°43′54″W; alt. 1 m; 15 Sep. 2004; O. Mu- nar leg.; UNAB 4756 ; Caquetá • 2 workers; Florencia; 01°37′11″N, 075°36′14″W; alt. 300 m; 31 Mar. 2016; F. Ser- na leg.; UNAB 4357 ; Caquetá • 5 workers; Florencia; 01° 30′4″N, 075°39′42″W; alt. 280 m; Sep. 2017; UNAB leg.; UNAB 4756 .

Identification. Pronotum with a pair of anterior prono- tal spines, which define the anterior border of a crown of spines on the promesonotum; promesonotal disc lacking spines; lateral pronotal spines high and sharp; and propo- deal spines usually straight ( Mackay et al. 2004).

Distribution. Mycocepurus smithii is widely distributed throughout Central and South America, extending from Mexico all the way south to Argentina including many Caribbean islands ( Kempf 1972; Fernández et al. 1996; Mackay et al. 2004; Rabeling et al. 2011; Franco and Feitosa 2018).

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Figure 7. Cyphomyrmex, Mycocepurus, and Myrmicocrypta species encountered in Colombia. A, B. Cyphomyrmex minutus, CASENT0173957. C, D. Cyphomyrmex rimosus, CASENT0173243.E, F. Mycocepurus smithii, CASENT0173989.G, H. Myrmicocrypta urichi, CASENT0912513.Photographs taken by A. Nobile (A–F) and W. Ericson (G, H) obtained from the Antweb database (http://www.antweb.org).