''Chrysapace'' is a
genus
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of
ant
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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) synonymized the previous dorylomorph subfamilies (Aenictinae, Aenictogitoninae, Cerapachyinae, Ecitoninae, and Leptanilloidinae) under ...
containing four described species.
The genus is distributed across the
Malaysian peninsula
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,
Indonesia
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, and the
Philippines
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* hil, Republ ...
, with undescribed species from
Madagascar
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and from
Baltic amber
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''Chrysapace'' was described by Crawley (1924) and later placed as a junior synonym of ''Cerapachys'' by Brown (1975). ''Chrysapace'' was resurrected as a valid genus by Borowiec (2016) during redescription of the doryline genera.
Species
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Chrysapace costatus''
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Chrysapace jacobsoni''
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Chrysapace merimbunensis''
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Chrysapace sauteri''
References
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Dorylinae
Ant genera