Biology:Chrysapace

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Short description: Genus of ants

Chrysapace
Temporal range: Priabonian–Recent
Priabonian - Recent
Cerapachys crawleyi casent0178877 profile 1.jpg
C. crawleyi worker
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Chrysapace
Crawley, 1924
Type species
Chrysapace jacobsoni
Crawley, 1924
Diversity[1]
38 species

Chrysapace is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae containing four described species.[1] The genus is distributed across the Malaysian peninsula, Indonesia, and the Philippines , with undescribed species from Madagascar and from Baltic amber[2][3][4] 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.[2]

Species

  • Chrysapace costatus (Bharti & Wachkoo, 2013)
  • Chrysapace jacobsoni Crawley, 1924
  • Chrysapace merimbunensis Yamada & Eguchi, 2019
  • Chrysapace sauteri (Forel, 1913)


References

Wikidata ☰ Q107202490 entry