''Ooceraea'' is a
genus
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of
ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of ...
s in the
subfamily 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) unde ...
containing approximately 16 described species.
The genus is distributed across the
Australasia
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,
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 Indi ...
,
Malagasy,
Neotropical
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Definition
In bioge ...
,
Oceania
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, and
Palearctic bioregions.
''Ooceraea'' was described by Roger (1862) and later placed as a junior synonym of ''Cerapachys'' by Brown (1973). ''Ooceraea'' was resurrected as a valid genus by Borowiec (2016) during redescription of the doryline genera.
Species
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Ooceraea alii''
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Ooceraea australis''
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Ooceraea besucheti''
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Ooceraea biroi
''Ooceraea biroi'', the clonal raider ant, is a queenless clonal ant in the genus ''Ooceraea'' (recently transferred from the genus '' Cerapachys''). Native to the Asian mainland, this species has become invasive on tropical and subtropical islan ...
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Ooceraea coeca''
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Ooceraea crypta''
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Ooceraea decamera''
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Ooceraea fragosa''
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Ooceraea fuscior''
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Ooceraea guizhouensis''
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Ooceraea joshii''
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Ooceraea octoantenna''
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Ooceraea papuana''
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Ooceraea pawa''
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Ooceraea pusilla''
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Ooceraea quadridentata''
References
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Dorylinae
Ant genera