1402 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



Tribe OCHETOMYRMICINI 

 Genus OCHETOMYRMEX Mayr 



Ochetomyrmex Mayr, 1877. Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien, Verb. 27:871. 



Type-species: Ochetomyrmex semipolitus Mayr. Monotypic. 

 Wasmannia Forel, 1893. London Ent. Soc, Trans. 4:383. 



Type-species: TetramoriumY auropunctatum Roger. Desig. by Wbeeler, 1911. 

 Blepharidatta Wbeeler, 1915. Harvard Univ., Mus. Comp. ZooL, Bui. 59:484. 



Type-species: Blepharidatta brasiliensis Wbeeler. Monotypic. 

 Hercynia Enzmann, 1947. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Jour. 55:43. Preocc. by Rafinesque, 1815. 



Type-species: Hercynia panamana Enzmann. Monotypic. 



A single species of tbis Neotropical genus bas been introduced into the United States. 



Taxonomy: Brown, 1948. Ent. News 59:102. —Brown, 1973. In Meggers, et al.. Tropical 

 Forest Ecosystems in Afr. and S. Amer., pp. 178-185 (generic syn.). 

 auropunctata (Roger). Fla., Calif.; W. Indies, Mexico, Central and S. Amer. Ecology: Nests in 

 exposed soil, under cover of objects, or in wood. Attends boneydew excreting insects, 

 can sting severely, and infests houses. Introduced. Little fire ant. 

 Tetramorium ? auropunctatum Roger, 1863. Berlin. Ent. Ztschr. 7:182. 5, 9, 6. 

 Wasmnnnia ^ glabra Santscbi, 1931. Rev. Ent. Sao Paulo 1:272. 5. 

 Hercynia panamana Enzmann, 1947. N. Y. Ent. Soc., Jour. 55:44. 5,2. 



Taxonomy: Smith, 1929. Jour. Econ. Ent. 22:243. —Smith, 1936. Puerto Rico Univ., Jour. Agr. 

 20:831, 854. —Brown, 1948. Ent. News 59:102. —Smith, 1954. Amer. Mus. Novitates 

 1671:7-8. —Wbeeler and Wheeler, 1954. Amer. Midland Nat. 52:444 (larva). — Kempf, 1964. 

 Studia Ent. 7:66. 



Biology: Wbeeler, 1929. Psyche 36:89-90. —Spencer, 1941. Fla. Ent. 24:6-14. — Femald, 1947. 

 Jour. Econ. Ent. 40:428. — Osbum, 1948. Fla. Ent. 31:11-15. —Smith, 1965. U. S. Dept. 

 Agr., Tech. Bui. 1326:48-49 (economic importance). 



Tribe CEPHALOTINI 



Revision: Kempf, 1951. Rev. de Ent. 22:1-244. 



Taxonomy: Kempf, 1958. Studia Ent. 1:1-168. —Kempf, 1973. Studia Ent. 16: 449-462 (generic 

 classification; key to genera). 



Genus ZACRYPTOCERUS Wheeler 



Zacryptocenis Asbmead, 1905. Canad. Ent. 37: 384. Nomen nudum. No description given; 

 the type-sp»ecies is given as Cryptocerus multistrigus F. Smith, but no such species 

 exists. 

 Zacryptocenis Wheeler, 1911. N. Y. Acad. Sci., Ann. 21: 175. 



Type-species: Cryptocerus clypeatus Fabricius. Monotypic. 

 Cryptocerus subg. Paracryptocerus Emery, 1915. Soc. Ent. de France, Bui., p. 192. 



Type-species: Cryptocerus spinosus Mayr. Orig. desig. 

 Cryptocerus subg. Cyathocephalus Emery, 1915. Soc. Ent. de France, Bui., p. 192. Preocc. 

 by Kessler, 1868. 



Type-species: Cryptocerus pallens Klug. Orig. desig. 

 Cryptocerus subg. Hypocryptocerus Wheeler, 1920. Psyche 27: 53. 



Type-species: Formica haemorrhoidalis Latreille, Orig. desig. 

 Cyathomyrmex Creighton, 1933. Psyche 40:98. N. name for Cyathocephalus Emery. 

 Paracryptocerus subg. Hamedia Smith, 1949. Psyche 56:20. 



Type-species: Cryptocerus umbraculatus Fabricius. Orig. desig. 



Mainly Neotropical with slight extensions into the United States. The ants are arboreal, form- 

 ing small colonies in cavities of plants, especially twigs. Food consists largely of boneydew and 

 small arthropods. The soldier is believed to keep intruders from the nest by blocking the en- 

 trance hole with its bead. 



Revision: Smith, 1947. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 49:29-40. —Kempf, 1958. Studia Ent. 1:65-158. 



