Abstract
The fungus-growing ant tribe Attini is composed by 15 extant and one fossil genus, distributed across the New World, with most of the species occurring in the Neotropical region. The genus Cyphomyrmex comprises opaque relatively small ants that inhabit the litter and nest in small roots, hollow trees or decomposing logs. Cyphomyrmex was described by Mayr (1862), based on a single species …