Chrysapace

Chrysapace is the only extant doryline genus also known from Baltic amber (late Eocene). These ants are extremely rarely collected and no observations of their biology have ever been published.

Identification
Diagnosis. Worker. The workers of this lineage are recognizable by a combination of prominent costate sculpture present on most of body surface, large eyes, exposed antennal sockets, two spurs on mid and hind tibiae, and pretarsal claws with a tooth. The New World Cylindromyrmex are the only other dorylines that have two pectinate tibial spurs and strongly costate or rugose sculpture but they are recognized by at least moderately developed antennal scrobes and horizontal torulo-posttorular complex that partly conceals antennal sockets. In Chrysapace there are no scrobes and antennal sockets are fully exposed.

Species richness
Species richness by country based on regional taxon lists (countries with darker colours are more species-rich). View Data



Biology
Nothing on the foraging, nesting, or other aspects of Chrysapace biology has ever been published.

Nomenclature

 *  CHRYSAPACE  [Dorylinae]
 * Chrysapace Crawley, 1924: 380. Type-species: Chrysapace jacobsoni, by monotypy.
 * Chrysapace junior synonym of Cerapachys: Brown, 1975: 19.
 * Chrysapace as genus: Borowiec, 2016: 101.