Cerapachys
Smith, 1857
valid
masculine
Cerapachys
Smith, 1857a:
74
Type-species:
Cerapachys antennatus, by subsequent designation of Bingham, 1903: 28.
- Cerapachys in Ponerinae: Smith, 1857a: 74 [Formicidae, Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 17 [Ponerinae].
- Cerapachys in Myrmicinae: Smith, 1861b: 47 [Myrmicidae]; Smith, 1871a: 329 [Myrmicidae].
- Cerapachys in Dorylinae: Emery, 1896e: 175 [Dorylinae].
- Cerapachys in Dorylinae, Cerapachyini: Emery, 1895l: 765; Emery, 1901b: 34; Smith, 1979: 1333.
- Cerapachys in Ponerinae, Cerapachyini: Forel, 1893b: 162; 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; Brandão, 1991: 337; Jaffe, 1993: 9; Bolton, 1994: 19; Bolton, 1995b: 24; Bolton, 2003: 34, 139, 268.
- Cerapachys in Dorylinae: Brady et al., 2014: 4 (in figure); Borowiec, 2016: 90.
- Cerapachys as genus: all authors.
- [Orapachys: incorrect subsequent spelling by Forel, 1893b: 162.]
- [Ceratopachys: unjustified emendation of spelling by Schulz, 1906: 155.]
- [Note: Ceratopachys was treated as a junior synonym of Cerapachys by Wheeler, 1922: 755; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 24; Tang et al., 1995: 25; Bolton, 2003: 141; Borowiec, 2016: 15, 90, but is best regarded as an unjustified emendation of spelling.]
Junior synonyms
- Neophyracaces Clark, 1941
- Phyracaces Emery, 1902
Obsolete classifications
Genus Cerapachys catalogues
Mayr, 1863a: 403; Roger, 1863b: 25; Dalla Torre, 1893: 17; Emery, 1911e: 8; Wheeler, 1922: 755, 1005; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 17; Kempf, 1972b: 76 (Neotropical); Smith, 1979: 1333 (North America); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 23 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 16 (Australia, New Caledonia); Bolton, 1995b: 142; Borowiec, 2016: 95 (species checklist).
Genus Cerapachys references
Mayr, 1865: 15, 24 (Syscia, Ooceraea diagnoses); André, 1882d: 236 (Europe, Algeria species); Forel, 1900f: 331 (India, Sri Lanka species key); Emery, 1902c: 24 (classification); Bingham, 1903: 27, 28 (India, Sri Lanka, Burma Lioponera, Cerapachys species keys); Emery, 1911e: 8 (Cerapachys diagnosis); Emery, 1911e: 9 (Cerapachys (Parasyscia) diagnosis); Emery, 1911e: 10 (Cerapachys (Ooceraea), Cerapachys (Syscia) diagnoses); Emery, 1911e: 10 (Phyracaces diagnosis); Emery, 1911e: 11 (Lioponera diagnosis); Arnold, 1915: 11, 12, 17 (Cerapachys diagnosis, South Africa species key, Phyracaces diagnosis); Wheeler, 1918a: 239 (Australia Phyracaces species key); Mann, 1921: 408 (Fiji Is 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); Wilson, 1959d: 44, 52, 55, 56 (Melanesia, Fiji Is, New Guinea, New Caledonia species keys); Bolton, 1973a: 340 (diagnosis); Brown, 1975: 18, 26 (diagnosis, Afrotropical and Indo-Australia species keys); Ogata, 1987a: 129 (diagnosis, Japan); Terayama et al., 1988: 35 (Taiwan species key); Morisita et al., 1989: 30 (Japan species key); Bolton, 1995a: 1048 (census); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 47 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 312 (Saudi Arabia species key); Terayama, 1996b: 18 (Japan species key); Dlussky, 1997a: 51 (in Baltic amber genera 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 Is species key); Bharti & Akbar, 2013a: 82 (India species key); Bharti & Wachkoo, 2013d: 1192 (India species key); Brady et al., 2014: 4 (phylogeny); Eguchi et al., 2014: 18 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); Baccaro et al., 2015: 150 (genus in Brazil); Chen et al., 2016: 9 (China species key); Borowiec, 2016: 90 (worker, male diagnoses); Cantone, 2017: 128 (brief male diagnosis).
Citations
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Extant: 5 valid species
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