Abstract
The ant genus Alfaria Emery, 1896 is endemic to the Neotropical region, presenting species with terrestrial, hypogeic, slow and fearful habits, being distributed in South America, Central America and part of Mexico. It is a poorly studied group, with 9 species in total, with the last comprehensive review carried out in 1992 by John Lattke and, since then, only scientific notes on the spec…