Cerapachys antennatus

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Cerapachys antennatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Cerapachys
Species: C. antennatus
Binomial name
Cerapachys antennatus
Smith, F., 1857

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Specimen Labels

Synonyms

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 2.547988° to 2.547988°.

 
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Temperate
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Subtropical
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Subtropical
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Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Borneo (type locality), Indonesia, Malaysia.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

Images from AntWeb

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Male (alate). Specimen code casent0281977. Photographer Shannon Hartman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • antennatus. Cerapachys antennatus Smith, F. 1857a: 74 (w.) BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak).
    • Type-material: holotype worker.
    • Type-locality: Malaysia: Borneo, Sarawak (A.R. Wallace).
    • Type-depository: OXUM.
    • Emery, 1887b: 445 (q.); Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 140 (m.).
    • Combination in C. (Cerapachys): Emery, 1902c: 24.
    • Status as species: Smith, F. 1861b: 47; Mayr, 1863: 403; Roger, 1863b: 25; Smith, F. 1871a: 329; Emery, 1887b: 445; Dalla Torre, 1893: 17; Emery, 1901g: 566; Emery, 1902c: 24; Emery, 1911d: 9; Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 45 (redescription); Crawley, 1926: 387 (redescription of type-material); Donisthorpe, 1932c: 450; Donisthorpe, 1941j: 199; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 18; Brown, 1975: 22, 59; Bolton, 1995b: 142; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 32.
    • Senior synonym of wheeleri: Brown, 1975: 22; Bolton, 1995b: 142.
    • Distribution: Malaysia (Sarawak).
  • wheeleri. Cerapachys wheeleri Crawley, 1926: 389 (in text) (w.) BORNEO (no state data).
    • Type-material: holotype worker.
    • [Note: this taxon was based on a unique worker: Cerapachys antennatus F. Smith, sensu Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 45, misidentification.]
    • Type-locality: Malaysia: Borneo, Sarawak, Kuching (J. Hewitt).
    • Type-depository: unknown (holotype lost: Brown, 1975: 60).
    • Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 20.
    • Junior synonym of antennatus: Brown, 1975: 22, 60; Bolton, 1995b: 145.

The following notes on F. Smith type specimens have been provided by Barry Bolton (details):

Cerapachys antennatus

Holotype worker in Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Labelled with a pink, rectangular “TYPE” label, a Donisthorpe type-label and a folded blue rectangular label “Cerapachys antennatus Smith. Borneo.”

A second specimen in Oxford University Museum of Natural History, also labelled “Cerapachys antennatus Smith. Borneo,” is actually a worker of C. sulcinodis Emery, and has been det. as such.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Borgmeier T. 1957. Myrmecologische Studien, I. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 29: 103-128.
  • Brown W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search Agric. (Ithaca N. Y.) 5(1): 1-115.
  • Chapman, J. W., and Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327
  • Crawley W. C. 1926. A revision of some old types of Formicidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1925: 373-393.
  • Donisthorpe H. 1941. Descriptions of new ants (Hym., Formicidae) from various localities. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)8: 199-210.
  • Emery C. 1887. Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte terza. Formiche della regione Indo-Malese e dell'Australia (continuazione e fine). [concl.]. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. 25(5): 427-473.
  • Emery C. 1901. Formiciden von Celebes. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 14:565-580.
  • Emery C. 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125.
  • Emery, C.. "Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte terza. Formiche della regione Indo-Malese e dell'Australia (continuazione e fine)." Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria (Genova) (2) 5, no. 25 (1887): 427-473.
  • Pfeiffer M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58
  • Smith F. 1861. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the islands of Ceram, Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo. [part]. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 6: 36-48.
  • Smith, F.. "Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace." Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2 (1857): 42-88.
  • Wheeler W. M. 1919. The ants of Borneo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:43-147.
  • Wilson E. O. 1959. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. VI. The tribe Cerapachyini. Pacific Insects 1: 39-57.