''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 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 22 ...
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 ...
.
Species are mainly
myrmecophagous
Myrmecophagy is a feeding behavior defined by the consumption of termites or ants, particularly as pertaining to those animal species whose diets are largely or exclusively composed of said insect types. Literally, myrmecophagy means "ant eating" ...
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 Indi ...
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
''Cerapachys'' (common names include "raider ant" and "ant-raiding ant") 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 throughou ...
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Cerapachys edentatus''
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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 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