1410 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



Morphology: Blum, Moser, and Cordero, 1964. Psyche 71:1-7 (source and specificity of odor 

 trail substances). — Moser, 1964. Science 143:1048-1049 (inquiline roach responds to trail 

 making substance). — Markl, 1970. Z. Vergl. Physiol. 69:2-37 (communication by 

 stridulatory signals). — Crewe and Blum, 1972. Jour. Ins. Physiol. 18:31-42 (alarm 

 pheromones, their phylogenetic significance). 



Genus CYPHOMYRMEX Mayr 



Cyphomyrmex Mayr, 1862. Zool.-Bot. CJesell. Wien, Verh. 12:690. 



Type-species: Cyphomyrmex minutus Mayr. Monotypic. 

 Cyphomyrmex subg. Cyphomannia Weber, 1938. Rev. de Ent. 9:183. 



Type-species: Cyphomyrmex {Cyphomannia) laexngatus Weber. Orig. desig. 



A rather large Neotropical genus with extensions into the southern United States. These ants 

 form small colonies, usually in the soil, and live on fungi which they cultivate from a substratum 

 of vegetable matter of feces of certain insects. 



Revision: Mayr, 1887. Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien, Verh. 37:555-562. —Wheeler, 1907. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., Bui. 23:670, 719-728, 765-773. —Weber, 1940. Rev. de Ent. 11:406-427. — Kempf, 

 1964. Studia Ent. 7:1^14 (strigatiis group). —Kempf, 1965. Studia Ent. 8:161-200 (rimosiis 

 group). 



Taxonomy: Wheeler, 1948. Amer. Midland Nat. 40:668-670 (larvae). —Weber, 1966. Ent. 

 News 77:166-168. 



Biology: Weber, 1955. Science 121:109. —Weber, 1957. Ecology 38: 480-494 (cultivation of 



fungus). 

 rimosus (Spinola). Fla., Ala., Miss., La., Tex., Ariz., Calif.; W. Indies and Mexico s. to 



Argentina. Ecology: Nests are in soil, under bark of rotten wood, or in humus around 

 roots; cultures a fungus in form of a yeast. A puzzling and variable complex for which 

 many subspecies have been proposed; see Kempf (1965) for names to be considered. 



Cryptocerus '^ rimosus Spinola, 1853. Accad. Sci. Torino, Mem. (2) 13: 65. 9, d. 



Meranoplus difformis Smith, 1858. Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus. v. 6, p. 195. 5 . 



Cyphomyrmex minutus Mayr, 1862. Zool.-Bot. Gtesell. Wien, Verh. 12:691. 9. 



Cyphomyrmex steinheili Forel, 1884. Soc. Vaud. des Sci. Nat., Bui. 20:368. 5 . 



Cyphom,yrmex rimosus var. comxilensis Wheeler, 1907. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bui. 23:719. 

 5, 9, 6. 



Taxonomy: Wheeler, 1907. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bui. 23:719-712. —Weber, 1940. Rev. de 

 Ent. 11:411. —Weber, 1941. Rev. de Ent. 12:116-119. —Wheeler, 1948. Amer. Midland Nat. 

 40:668 (larva). —Weber, 1958. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 60:259-260. —Wheeler and Wheeler, 

 1960. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 62:28 Oarva). —Kempf, 1965. studia Ent. 8:162, 198. 



Biology: Wheeler, 1905. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bui. 21:106. —Weber, 1945. Rev. de Ent. 

 16:5-14. —Weber, 1947. Bol. de Ent. Venezolana 6:144. —Weber, 1955. Wash. Acad. Sci., 

 Jour. 45:275-281. —Weber, 1972. Amer. Phil. Soc., Mem. 92, pp. 8, 26, 31-32, 34, 39-42, 51, 

 60, 71-72, 94-95, 98-99, 102, 105-108, 110, 117. 

 wheeleri ForeL Tex., Calif.; Mexico. Ecology: Nests in the soil beneath stones in very arid 

 habitats. 

 Cyphomyrmex wheeleri Forel, 1900. Schweiz. Ent. (Jesell. Mitt. 10:282. 9,9. 



Taxonomy: Wheeler, 1907. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bui. 23:725-726 (each caste). —Weber, 

 1940. Rev. de Ent. 11:409. —Kempf, 1965. Studia Ent. 8:167-172. 



Biology: Mallis, 1941. South. Calif. Acad. Sci., Bui. 40:74. —Weber, 1972. Amer. PhiL Soc., 

 Mem. 92, pp. 26, 93. —Wheeler and Wheeler, 1973. Ants of Deep Canyon, pp. 97-98. 



Genus MYCETOSORITIS Wheeler 



Atta subg. Mycetosoritis Wheeler, 1907. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, BuL 23:714. 

 Type-species: Atta (Mycetosoritis) hartmanni Wheeler. Monotypic 



A small genus found only in the United States and Brazil. 



