cerapachys
{{short description|Genus of ants}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Cerapachys biroi casent0055090 profile 1.jpg
|image_caption=C. biroi worker from Madagascar
|taxon =Cerapachys
|authority = Smith, 1857
|type_species = Cerapachys antennatus
|type_species_authority =
|diversity_link = #Species
|diversity = 5 species
|diversity_ref = {{AntCat|429435|Cerapachys|2021|accessdate=3 June 2021}}
|synonyms =
Ceratopachys Schulz, 1906
Cysias Emery, 1902
Neophyracaces Clark, 1941
Parasyscia Emery, 1882
Phyracaces Emery, 1902
}}
Cerapachys (common names include "raider ant" and "ant-raiding ant"){{cite web |url=http://australianmuseum.net.au/Ant-raiding-Ant |title= Animal species: Ant-raiding Ant |date= September 2013 |website=australianmuseum.net.au |publisher=Australian Museum |accessdate=21 September 2013}} is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae. Species are mainly myrmecophagous ants which raid the nests of other ants for prey. The genus is distributed widely throughout the Indomalayan region. 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.{{cite journal|last1=Borowiec|first1=M.|title=Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)|journal=ZooKeys|date=2016|issue=608|pages=1–280|doi=10.3897/zookeys.608.9427|pmid=27559303|pmc=4982377|doi-access=free|bibcode=2016ZooK..608....1B }}
Species
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- Cerapachys anokha {{small|(Bharti & Akbar, 2013)}}
- Cerapachys antennatus {{small|(Smith, 1857)}}
- Cerapachys aranus {{small|(Bolton, 1995)}}
- Cerapachys crawleyi {{small|(Wheeler, 1924)}}
- Cerapachys doryloides {{small|(Borowiec, M. L., 2009)}}{{cite journal |last=Borowiec |first=M. L. |date=2009 |title=New ant species related to Cerapachys sexspinus and discussion of the status of Yunodorylus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=2069 |pages=43–58: 46–48|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2069.1.3 }}
- Cerapachys edentatus {{small|(Forel, 1900)}}
- Cerapachys eguchii {{small|(Borowiec, M. L., 2009)}}
- Cerapachys iaianstewarti {{small|(Fisher, 2007)}}{{cite web|url=http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=21342|title=Brand new ant species named after TV star academic Iain|date=13 December 2007|publisher=University of Plymouth|accessdate=10 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928072937/http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=21342|archive-date=28 September 2011|url-status=dead}}
- Cerapachys incontentus {{small|(Brown, 1975)}}
- Cerapachys latus {{small|(Brown, 1975)}}
- Cerapachys lividus {{small|(Brown, 1975)}}
- Cerapachys manni {{small|(Crawley, 1926)}}
- Cerapachys neotropicus {{small|(Weber, 1939)}}
- Cerapachys paradoxus {{small|(Borowiec, M. L., 2009)}}
- Cerapachys princeps {{small|(Clark, 1934)}}
- Cerapachys splendens {{small|(Borgmeier, 1957)}}
- Cerapachys sulcinodis {{small|(Emery, 1889)}}
- Cerapachys wroughtoni {{small|(Forel, 1910)}}
- Cerapachys xizangensis {{small|(Tang & Li, 1982)}}
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References
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{{cite web |url=http://www.antweb.org/description.do?name=Cerapachys&rank=genus&project=allantwebants |title= Genus: Cerapachys |date= |website=antweb.org |publisher=AntWeb |accessdate=21 September 2013}}
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- {{OA-attribution| {{Cite journal | last1 = Bharti | first1 = H. | last2 = Akbar | first2 = S. A. | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.336.5719 | title = Taxonomic studies on the ant genus Cerapachys Smith (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from India | journal = ZooKeys | issue = 336 | pages = 79–103 | year = 2013 | pmid = 24146574| pmc = 3800781| doi-access = free | bibcode = 2013ZooK..336...79B }} }}
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External links
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- {{Wikispecies-inline|Cerapachys|Cerapachys}}
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