Megalomyrmex cupecuara Brandão, 1990

Brandão, Carlos Roberto F., 2003, Further Revisionary Studies On The Ant Genus Megalomyrmex Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Solenopsidini) C R F. B Abstract, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 43 (8), pp. 145-159 : 147

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scientific name	Megalomyrmex cupecuara Brandão, 1990
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I considered the first funicular segment twice as large as the second, one of the characters that define the Modestus group of species ( Brandão, 1990). However, in M. cupecuara workers, that agree in all other characters with other members of the Modestus group, the first segment is decidedly larger than the second, although never the double.

F. Fernández ( IHVL) kindly loaned me the third known Colombian sample of M. cupecuara : 2 workers collected at Valle by R. F. Escalerete, 180 m, Bo (sque), August, 1995 [Usma & Aldaria, RSC-46] .