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Genus: Acropyga   Roger, 1862 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

Extant: 41 species

Fossil: 1 species

Acropyga Roger, 1862a PDF: 242. Type-species: Acropyga acutiventris, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Acropyga in Camponotinae: Forel, 1878c PDF: 379 [Camponotidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 174.
Acropyga in Camponotinae, Plagiolepidini: Forel, 1886h PDF: 212; Forel, 1893b PDF: 165; Forel, 1895b PDF: 107; Emery, 1895l PDF: 771; Wheeler, 1910a: 143; Forel, 1912j PDF: 88; Forel, 1917 PDF: 249.
Acropyga in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 384; Wheeler, 1922: 695; Emery, 1925d PDF: 27; Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016 PDF: 348.
Acropyga incertae sedis in Formicinae: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77.
Acropyga in Formicinae, Lasius genus group: Agosti, 1991 PDF: 296.
Acropyga in Formicinae, Lasiini: Bolton, 2003 PDF: 22, 94.
Acropyga as junior synonym of Plagiolepis: Mayr, 1863a PDF: 394.
Acropyga as genus: Roger, 1862a PDF: 242; Smith, 1871b PDF: 319; Forel, 1878c PDF: 379; all subsequent authors.
Genus Acropyga references
Roger, 1863b: 11 (catalogue); Forel, 1878c PDF: 379 (diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 174 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 332 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1922: 928 (Afrotropical catalogue); Emery, 1925d PDF: 27 (diagnosis, subgenera key, catalogue); Emery, 1925d PDF: 29, 30 (Rhizomyrma)); Weber, 1944b PDF: 91 (Neotropical Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 210 (Asia checklist); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 16 (Neotropical catalogue); Smith, 1979: 1423 (North America catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 107 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 5 (Australia checklist); Morisita, Kubota, et al., 1991: 14 (Japan species key); Wang & Wu, 1992a PDF: 227 (China species key); Bolton, 1994: 51 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1047 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 57 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 86 (Australia synopsis); Terayama, Fellowes & Zhou, 2002 PDF: 22 (diagnosis, East Asian species key); LaPolla, 2004 PDF: 16 (diagnosis, all species revision, New World species key: 23, Old World species key: 27); LaPolla & Fisher, 2005 PDF: 601 (Afrotropical species, key); LaPolla, Schultz, et al. 2006: 197 (phylogeny); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 204 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 60 (south-western Australia species key); Blaimer, LaPolla, Branstetter, Lloyd & Brady, 2016 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.05.030 PDF: 20 (phylogenomics)

Taxon Page Images:



A nearly blind Acropyga goeldii worker ant tends to root-feeding mealybugs in an underground chamber. The ants depend on their hemipteran "cattle" for food, while the mealybugs are kept safe from predators and carried to new roots by their ant guards. Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oceania, Palearctic bioregions.

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Bundibugyo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Eastern Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kabarole, Kakamega, Kenya, Kilimanjaro, KwaZulu-Natal, Middle Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South, South Africa, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Western, Woleu-Ntem, Zimbabwe
Australasia Region: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Australian Capital Territory, Central, East Sepik, Guadalcanal, Madang, Maluku, Milne Bay, Morobe, New South Wales, Northern, Northern Territory, Oceania, Papua, Papua Barat, Papua New Guinea, Queensland, Solomon Islands, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Indomalaya Region: Aceh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Asia, Borneo, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Krakatau Islands, Lampung, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Nicobar Island, Philippines, Sabah, Sarawak, Selangor, Singapore, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, Sumatera Barat, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Yunnan
Nearctic Region: Arizona, North America, Puebla, United States
Neotropical Region: Alajuela, Alta Verapaz, Americas, Antioquia, Aragua, Argentina, Atlántida, Baja Verapaz, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canindeyú, Caribbean, Cartago, Central America, Chiapas, Cibao Norte, Coclé, Colombia, Comayagua, Cortés, Costa Caribe Norte, Costa Caribe Sur, Costa Rica, Cuba, Darién, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Progreso, El Salvador, Gracias a Dios, Guanacaste, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Hato Mayor, Heredia, Honduras, Huehuetenango, Izabal, Jinotega, Limón, Magdalena, María Trinidad Sánchez, Matagalpa, Mexico, Minas Gerais, Napo, Nicaragua, Oaxaca, Panama, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Petén, Puntarenas, Rio de Janeiro, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San José, San Salvador, Santa Catarina, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santiago de Cuba, South America, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Veracruz
Oceania Region: Cakaudrove, Fiji, Melanesia
Palearctic Region: China, Crete, Eastern Asia, Europe, Greece, Japan, Southern Europe, United Arab Emirates

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Acropyga   Forel, A., 1893, Formicides de l'Antille St. Vincent. Récoltées par Mons. H. H. Smith., Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1893, pp. 333-418: 347-348, (download) 347-348 3948
Acropyga nov. gen  Roger, J., 1862, Einige neue exotische Ameisen-Gattungen und Arten., Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 6, pp. 233-254: 242-243, (download) 242-243 4098


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