Cerapachys
Cerapachys (common names include "raider ant" and "ant-raiding ant")[2] is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae.[3] Species are mainly myrmecophagous ants which raid the nests of other ants for prey. The genus is distributed widely throughout the Indomalayan region.[4] The genus was revised by BoroWiec (2016) who split a number of previously synonymized genera out of Cerapachys, leaving only 5 species in the genus.[1][5]
| Cerapachys | |
|---|---|
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| C. biroi worker from Madagascar | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | Cerapachys Smith, 1857 |
| Type species | |
| Cerapachys antennatus | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 5 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ceratopachys Schulz, 1906 | |
Species
- Cerapachys anokha Bharti & Akbar, 2013
- Cerapachys antennatus Smith, 1857
- Cerapachys aranus Bolton, 1995
- Cerapachys crawleyi (Wheeler, 1924
- Cerapachys edentatus (Forel, 1900)
- Cerapachys incontentus Brown, 1975
- Cerapachys latus Brown, 1975
- Cerapachys lividus Brown, 1975
- Cerapachys manni Crawley, 1926
- Cerapachys neotropicus Weber, 1939
- Cerapachys princeps Clark, 1934
- Cerapachys splendens (Borgmeier, 1957)
- Cerapachys sulcinodis (Emery, 1889)
- Cerapachys wroughtoni (Forel, 1910)
- Cerapachys xizangensis (Tang & Li, 1982)
References
- Bolton, B. (2021). "Cerapachys". AntCat. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- "Animal species: Ant-raiding Ant". australianmuseum.net.au. Australian Museum. September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- "Genus: Cerapachys". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- Bharti, H.; Akbar, S. A. (2013). "Taxonomic studies on the ant genus Cerapachys Smith (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from India". ZooKeys (336): 79–103. doi:10.3897/zookeys.336.5719. PMC 3800781. PMID 24146574.
- Borowiec, M. (2016). "Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". ZooKeys (608): 1–280. doi:10.3897/zookeys.608.9427. PMC 4982377. PMID 27559303.
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