Cyphomyrmex salvini Forel

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 : 492

Cyphomyrmex salvini Forel

Cyphomyrmex rimosus subsp. salvini Forel , 1899:40; Wheeler, 1907: 724;.Weber, 1940:412; [[worker]], [[queen]], [[male]]

Cyphomyrmex championi Forel , 1899:41;[[male]]. new synonymy.

Cyphomyrmex acutus Weber , 1940:409;

Cyphomyrmex salvini : Weber, 1958:261;. Kempf, 1966:190-2 [[worker]], [[queen]], [[male]]

Cyphomyrmex salvini subsp. acutus : Weber, 1958:261;

Kempf (1966) first expressed the view that C. championi was probably the male caste of C. salvini . W'e have examined the type of C. championi , in the BMNH, and it is inseparable from males collected from nests of C. salvini , thus confirming Kempf's assumption.

This species has been previously reported from Panama and Costa Rica, including Isla de Cocos (Kempf 1966). We have seen numerous specimens from several Costa Rican localities. Two small series of specimens extend the range to guatemala: Mixco, no date (W.M. Mann; USNM); and colombia: Anchicaya, Municipio Buenaventura, c. 200 m elev., Dept. Valle, 17-19 June 1971 (W.L. Brown; MCZ), under rock in canyon, rain forest, ecuador: Rio Palenque (Univ. Miami Res. Sta.), 30 July 1978 (G.J. Umphrey; UMPH), nest in hollow 'bamboo' in forest.