Cerapachys
Smith, 1857
valid
masculine
Cerapachys
Smith, 1857a:
74
Type-species:
Cerapachys antennatus, by subsequent designation of Bingham, 1903: 28.
- Cerapachys in Myrmicinae: Smith, 1857a: 74 [Myrmicidae]; Smith, 1861b: 47 [Myrmicidae]; Smith, 1871b: 329 [Myrmicidae].
- Cerapachys in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 17.
- Cerapachys in Dorylinae, Cerapachyini: Emery, 1895l: 765; Emery, 1901b: 34
- Cerapachys in Ponerinae, Cerapachyini: Forel, 1893b: 162 (also misspelled Orapachys, same page); Forel, 1900f: 331; Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Wheeler, 1910a: 137; Emery, 1911e: 8; Arnold, 1915: 11; Forel, 1917: 239; Brown, 1975: 18; Snelling, 1981: 389; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10.
- Cerapachys in Cerapachyinae, Cerapachyini: Wheeler, 1902e: 185; Wheeler, 1922: 639; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 632; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 17; Kempf, 1972b: 76; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 256; Bolton, 1990a: 67; Bolton, 1990c: 1357; Jaffe, 1993: 9; Bolton, 1994: 19; Bolton, 2003: 34.
- Cerapachys in Dorylinae: Brady et al., 2014: 5
Junior synonyms
- Ceratopachys Schulz, 1906
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Cysias
Emery, 1902
Obsolete classification(s): Cerapachys (Cysias)
- Neophyracaces Clark, 1941
- Phyracaces Emery, 1902
Obsolete classifications
Genus Cerapachys references
Roger, 1863b: 21, 25 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a: 403, 439, 455 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 15, 24 (Syscia, Ooceraea diagnoses); Emery, 1882a: 236 (Europe & Algeria species); Dalla Torre, 1893: 17 (Lioponera, Cerapachys, Parasyscia, Ooceraea, Syscia catalogues); Forel, 1900f: 331 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 27, 28 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma Lioponera, Cerapachys species keys); Emery, 1911e: 8 (diagnosis, subgenera key, catalogue); Emery, 1911e: 9 (Cerapachys (Parasyscia) diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1911e: 10 (Cerapachys (Ooceraea) & Cerapachys (Syscia) diagnoses, catalogues); Emery, 1911e: 10 (Phyracaces diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1911e: 11 (Lioponera diagnosis, catalogue); Arnold, 1915: 11 (diagnosis, South Africa species key); Wheeler, 1918a: 239 (Australia Phyracaces species key); Mann, 1921: 408 (Fiji species key); Wheeler, 1922: 52, 53, 639 (Cerapachys & Phyracaces diagnoses, subgenera key); Wheeler, 1924e: 224 (Chrysapace, comments); Arnold, 1926: 193 (South Africa species, revised key); Donisthorpe, 1939a: 253 (Lioponera diagnosis); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 17, 21, 22 (Asia Cerapachys, Lioponera, Phyracaces checklists); Wilson, 1959d: 44, 52, 55, 56 (Melanesia, Fiji Is, New Guinea & New Caledonia species keys); Kempf, 1972b: 76 (Neotropical catalogue); Brown, 1975: 18, 26 (diagnosis, keys); Smith, 1979: 1333 (North America catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 23 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 16 (Australia, New Caledonia checklist); Terayama et al., 1988: 35 (Taiwan species key); Morisita et al., 1989: 30 (Japan species key); Bolton, 1995a: 1048 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 142 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 47 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 312 (Saudi Arabia species key); Terayama, 1996b: 18 (Japan species key); Shattuck, 1999: 60 (Australia synopsis); Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 36 (U.S.A., New Mexico species key); Borowiec, 2009a: 46 (Cerapachys sexspinus group key); Terayama, 2009: 122 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009: 126 (south-western Australia species key); Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 24 (Fiji species key); Bharti & Wachkoo, 2013d: 1192 (India species key); Bharti & Akbar, 2013a: 82 (India species key);. Borowiec, 2016: 90 (worker, male diagnosis); Cantone, 2017: 128 (brief male diagnosis)
Citations
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Extant: 5 valid species
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