Fungus growing ants

The presence of the recently described fungus-farming ant genus and species _Cyatta abscondita_ is reported in the northwestern region of Misiones Province in Argentina. A single worker of C. abscondita was collected in a pitfall trap in a mature …

The genus _Mycetarotes_ is a fungus-growing ant (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini) mostly recorded south of the Amazon: in southeastern Brazil, Paraguay, and northern Argentina. Here we report the first record of this genus in Colombia: _M. parallelus_ …