Typhlomyrmex Mayr, 1862
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Type Species: Typhlomyrmex rogenhoferi Mayr
Diagnosis (Females): Head subquadrate; antennal club sometimes well-defined and formed by 3 or 4 segments; cephalic vertex mostly smooth and shining, sometimes presenting faded striae or rugulae; eye absent or reduced, with less than 15 ommatidia; promesonotal suture well marked, totally interrupting dorsal mesosomal sculpture; propodeal spiracle separated from declivity margin by a distance longer than its diameter; metacoxal dorsum unarmed or at most with a small lobe or denticle; petiole pedunculate, sometimes with a prominent anteroventral process.
Species: clavicornis, foreli, lavra new combination, lenis new combination, major, meire, prolatus, pusillus, reichenspergeri new combination, and rogenhoferi.
Distribution: Exclusively Neotropical, occurring from Mexico to Argentina (Buenos Aires).
Notes: Mostspecies of Typhlomyrmex can be identified usingthe key of Lacau et al. (2008), while T. lavra, T. lenis, and T. reichenspergeri (formerly included in the striatula group of Gnamptogenys ) can be identified using Camacho et al. (2020).
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