Mycetophylax

Mycetophylax
Mycetophylax conformis worker
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Mycetophylax Emery, 1913
Type species
Myrmicocrypta brittoni [1]
Diversity [2]
21 species

Mycetophylax is a genus of fungus-growing ants. The genus is characterized exclusively for the New World and is only found on coastal sandy beaches and shallow waters of Brazil. ^[3]

Species

• Mycetophylax andersoni
• Mycetophylax asper
• Mycetophylax auritus
• Mycetophylax bigibbosus
• Mycetophylax bruchi
• Mycetophylax clorindae
• Mycetophylax conformis (Mayr, 1884)
• Mycetophylax daguerrei
• Mycetophylax faunulus
• Mycetophylax lectus
• Mycetophylax lilloanus
• Mycetophylax morschi (Emery, 1888)
• Mycetophylax nemei
• Mycetophylax occultus
• Mycetophylax olitor
• Mycetophylax paniscus
• Mycetophylax plaumanni
• Mycetophylax simplex (Emery, 1888)
• Mycetophylax snellingi
• Mycetophylax strigatus
• Mycetophylax vallensis

References

1. "Genus: Mycetophylax". antweb.org. AntWeb . Retrieved 13 October 2013.
2. Bolton, B. (2025). "Mycetophylax". AntCat. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
3. D. C. Cardoso, M. P. Cristiano and M. G. Tavares. 2011. Methodological remarks on rearing basal Attini ants in the laboratory for biological and evolutionary studies: overview of the genus Mycetophylax. // Insectes Sociaux. Volume 58, Number 3, 427—430, doi : 10.1007/s00040-011-0160-3