''Cerapachys'' (
common name
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s include "raider ant" and "ant-raiding ant")
is a
genus
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of
ant
Ants are Eusociality, eusocial insects of the Family (biology), family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the Taxonomy (biology), order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from Vespoidea, vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cre ...
s in the
subfamily
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Dorylinae
Dorylinae is an ant subfamily, with distributions in both the Old World and New World. Brady ''et al.'' (2014) Synonym (taxonomy), synonymized the previous dorylomorph subfamilies (Aenictinae, Aenictogitoninae, Cerapachyinae, Ecitoninae, and Lep ...
.
Species are mainly
myrmecophagous ants which raid the nests of other ants for prey. The genus is distributed widely throughout the
Indomalaya
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia.
Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Ind ...
n 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.
Species
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Cerapachys anokha''
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Cerapachys antennatus''
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Cerapachys aranus''
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Cerapachys crawleyi''
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Cerapachys doryloides''
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Cerapachys edentatus''
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Cerapachys eguchii''
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Cerapachys iaianstewarti''
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Cerapachys incontentus''
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Cerapachys latus''
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Cerapachys lividus''
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Cerapachys manni''
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Cerapachys neotropicus''
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Cerapachys paradoxus''
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Cerapachys princeps''
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Cerapachys splendens''
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Cerapachys sulcinodis''
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Cerapachys wroughtoni''
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Cerapachys xizangensis''
References
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External links
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Dorylinae
Ant genera
Taxa named by Frederick Smith (entomologist)