Cyphomyrmex cornutus Kempf

Snelling, R. R. & Longino, J. T., 1992, Revisionary notes on the fungus-growing ants of the genus Cyphomyrmex, rimosus-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini)., Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: selected studies., Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 479-494 : 485

Cyphomyrmex cornutus Kempf

(Figs 30.2, 30.30)

Cyphomyrmex cornutus Kempf , 1968: 35-8; [[worker]], [[queen]]

This very distinctive species was described from workers and females from Colombia. Two small series of workers have been seen from ecuador: 2-6 km above Cochancay on GuayaquilTambo highway, Prov. Canar, 500-700 m elev., 25 July 1973 (W. L. Brown; MCZ); Univ. Miami Research Sta., Rio Palenque, 30 July 1978 (G.J. Umphrey, no. 872; UMPH), from a piece of hollow 'bamboo' in forest. There are a few specimens in the LACM collections from costa rica, Heredia Prov.: Finca La Selva, various dates from March to June, 1974 (Talbot and Van Devender), all from berlese funnel of forest leaf litter.