Typhlomyrmex Mayr, 1862

Camacho, G P, Franco, W, Branstetter, M G, Pie, M R, Longino, J T, Schultz, T R & Feitosa, R M, 2022, UCE Phylogenomics Resolves Major Relationships Among Ectaheteromorph Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): A New Classification For the Subfamilies and the Description of a New Genus, Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1), pp. 6-6 : 12-13

Typhlomyrmex Mayr

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).