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(24) Cyphomyrmex major (Forel, 1901) Figure 6G, HMaterial examined. COLOMBIA: Antioquia • 3 gynes, 4 workers; Turbo; 08°05′53″N, 076°43′54″W; alt. 1 m; 15 Sep. 2004; O. Munar leg.; UNAB 2353; Santander • 4 gynes, 4 workers; Santa Helena del Opon; 06°20′00″N, 073°36′00″W; alt. 1426 m; Apr. 2012; A. Ardila leg.; UNAB 2526. Identification. Mid-pronotal tubercle paired; cephalic posterolateral corner produced as broad lobe, not spinelike; frontal carina extending onto top lobe joining pos- terior carina; and anterior mesonotal tubercle high and obtuse (Snelling and Longino 1992). Distribution.Cyphomyrmex major is known from Boli- via, Brazil (Amazonas, Rio Grande do Sul, Paraná, and São Paulo), Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela (Kempf 1972; Santos et al. 2017; Fernán- dez and Serna 2019).

Published as part of Mera-Rodríguez, Daniela, Serna, Francisco, Sosa-Calvo, Jeffrey, Lattke, John & Rabeling, Christian, 2020, A checklist of the non-leaf-cutting fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Colombia, with new biogeographic records, pp. 1205-1227 in Check List 16 (5) on page 1215, DOI: 10.15560/16.5.1205, http://zenodo.org/record/4059086