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Genus: Cerapachys   Smith, 1857 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

5 species

Cerapachys Smith, 1857a PDF: 74. Type-species: Cerapachys antennatus, by subsequent designation of Bingham, 1903 PDF: 28. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Cerapachys in Myrmicinae: Smith, 1857a PDF: 74 [Myrmicidae]; Smith, 1861b PDF: 47 [Myrmicidae]; Smith, 1871b PDF: 329 [Myrmicidae].
Cerapachys in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 17.
Cerapachys in Dorylinae, Cerapachyini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 765; Emery, 1901b PDF: 34.
Cerapachys in Ponerinae, Cerapachyini: Forel, 1893b PDF: 162 (also misspelled Orapachys, same page); Forel, 1900f PDF: 331; Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382; Wheeler, 1910a: 137; Emery, 1911e PDF: 8; Arnold, 1915: 11; Forel, 1917 PDF: 239; Brown, 1975 PDF: 18; Snelling, 1981: 389; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10.
Cerapachys in Cerapachyinae, Cerapachyini: Wheeler, 1902e PDF: 185; Wheeler, 1922: 639; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 632; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 17; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 76; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b PDF: 256; Bolton, 1990a PDF: 67; Bolton, 1990c PDF: 1357; Jaffe, 1993: 9; Bolton, 1994: 19; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 34.
Cerapachys in Dorylinae: Brady, Fisher, Schultz & Ward, 2014 PDF: 5.
Genus Cerapachys references
Roger, 1863b: 21, 25 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a PDF: 403, 439, 455 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865 PDF: 15, 24 (Syscia, Ooceraea diagnoses); Emery, 1882a: 236 (Europe & Algeria species); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 17 (Lioponera, Cerapachys, Parasyscia, Ooceraea, Syscia catalogues); Forel, 1900f PDF: 331 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 27, 28 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma Lioponera, Cerapachys species keys); Emery, 1911e PDF: 8 (diagnosis, subgenera key, catalogue); Emery, 1911e PDF: 9 (Cerapachys (Parasyscia) diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1911e PDF: 10 (Cerapachys (Ooceraea) & Cerapachys (Syscia) diagnoses, catalogues); Emery, 1911e PDF: 10 (Phyracaces diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1911e PDF: 11 (Lioponera diagnosis, catalogue); Arnold, 1915: 11 (diagnosis, South Africa species key); Wheeler, 1918a PDF: 239 (Australia Phyracaces species key); Mann, 1921 PDF: 408 (Fiji species key); Wheeler, 1922: 52, 53, 639 (Cerapachys & Phyracaces diagnoses, subgenera key); Wheeler, 1924e PDF: 224 (Chrysapace, comments); Arnold, 1926 PDF: 193 (South Africa species, revised key); Donisthorpe, 1939a PDF: 253 (Lioponera diagnosis); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 17, 21, 22 (Asia Cerapachys, Lioponera, Phyracaces checklists); Wilson, 1959d PDF: 44, 52, 55, 56 (Melanesia, Fiji Is, New Guinea & New Caledonia species keys); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 76 (Neotropical catalogue); Brown, 1975 PDF: 18, 26 (diagnosis, keys); Smith, 1979: 1333 (North America catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 23 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 16 (Australia, New Caledonia checklist); Terayama, Kubota, Sakai & Kawazoe, 1988 PDF: 35 (Taiwan species key); Morisita, Kubota, Onoyama, Ogata, Terayama, Kondoh & Imai, 1989: 30 (Japan species key); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1048 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 142 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 47 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 312 (Saudi Arabia species key); Terayama, 1996B: 18 (Japan species key); Shattuck, 1999: 60 (Australia synopsis); Mackay & MacKay, 2002 PDF: 36 (U.S.A., New Mexico species key); Borowiec, 2009A PDF: 46 (Cerapachys sexspinus group key); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 122 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 126 (south-western Australia species key); Sarnat & Economo, 2012 PDF: 24 (Fiji species key); Bharti & Wachkoo, 2013 PDF: 1192 (India species key); Bharti & Akbar, 2013 PDF: 82 (India species key);. Borowiec, 2016 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF: 90 (worker, male diagnosis)

Taxon Page Images:

Cerapachys cf anokha Kerala Dr Kalesh Sadasivan kaleshs2002in@gmail.com

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Indomalaya bioregion.

Afrotropical Region: Mozambique
Indomalaya Region: Arunachal Pradesh, Asia, Borneo, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Krakatau Islands, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nicobar Island, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines, Sabah, Sarawak, South-Eastern Asia, Thailand, Yunnan
Neotropical Region: Cuba, Mato Grosso do Sul
Oceania Region: Palau
Palearctic Region: China, Eastern Asia

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Cerapachys   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 23, (download) 23 21367
Cerapachys   Forel, A., 1892, Hymenopteres 2 (supplement au 28 fascicule). Les Formicides., Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar. 20., Paris: Unknown Publisher, pp. 232-280: 243-244, (download) 243-244 8239
Cerapachys   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 25-26, (download) 25-26 21008
Cerapachys   Smith, F., 1857, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2, pp. 42-88: 74, (download) 74 2588
Cerapachys   Brown, W. L., 1975, Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini., Search: Agriculture; Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station 15, pp. 1-115: 18-22, (download) 18-22 6751
Cerapachys   Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269: 52, (download) 52 20597


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