Cerapachyini

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Dorylinae.

Nomenclature

 * CERAPACHYINI [junior synonym of Dorylinae]
 * Cerapachysii Forel, 1893a: 162. Type-genus: Cerapachys Smith, F. 1857a: 74.

Taxonomic History

 * Cerapachyini as tribe of Ponerinae: Forel, 1893a: 162 [Cerapachysii]; Forel, 1900c: 52 [Cerapachii]; Forel, 1900d: 328 [Cerapachii]; Forel, 1901c: 139 [Cerapachii]; Ashmead, 1905b: 382 [Cerapachyini]; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 136 [Cerapachysii]; Emery, 1911d: 5; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 27; Arnold, 1915: 11; Forel, 1917: 239; Wheeler, W.M. 1918a: 215; Arnold, 1926: 191; Brown, 1975: 14; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10.
 * Cerapachyini as tribe of Dorylinae: Emery, 1895j: 765 [Cerapachyi]; Emery, 1901a: 36 [Cerapachyi]; Emery, 1904a: 116 [Cerapachyi].
 * Cerapachyini as tribe of Ponerinae: Brown, 1975: 14.
 * Cerapachyini as tribe of Cerapachyinae: Wheeler, W.M. 1902d: 185 [Cerapachyi]; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 638; Wheeler, W.M. & Chapman, 1925: 50; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 620; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 17; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1985: 256; Bolton, 1990a: 67; Bolton, 1990c: 1357; Jaffe, 1993: 9; Bolton, 1994: 19; Bolton, 2003: 33, 139.
 * Cerapachyini as family: Bernard, 1951: 1046 [Cerapachyidae]; Bernard, 1953b: 215 [Cerapachyidae].
 * Cerapachyini as junior synonym of Ponerinae: Brown, 1975: 14; Snelling, R.R. 1981: 387; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10.
 * Cerapachyini as group of Dorylinae: Emery, 1901a: 36 [Cerapachinae].
 * Cerapachyini as subfamily of Formicidae: Wheeler, W.M. 1902d: 185 [Cerapachyinae]; Wheeler, W.M. 1920: 53 [Cerapachyinae]; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 51, 632; Donisthorpe, 1922: xlv; Borgmeier, 1923: 50; Clark, 1924b: 76; Clark, 1934c: 49; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 620; Creighton, 1950a: 56; Clark, 1951: 15 (in key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 17; Smith, M.R. 1951a: 781; Brown, 1954e: 26 [Cerapachyinae]; Kusnezov, 1956: 11; Kusnezov, 1964: 48; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1972a: 37; Kempf, 1972a: 263; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1976b: 46; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1333; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1985: 256; Ogata, 1987: 127; Bolton, 1990a: 66 [Cerapachyinae]; Bolton, 1990c: 1356 [Cerapachyinae]; Baroni Urbani, et al. 1992: 316; Jaffe, 1993: 9; Bolton, 1994: 18 [Cerapachyinae]; Wu, J. & Wang, 1995: 47.
 * Cerapachyini as dorylomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 2003: 32, 137 [Cerapachyinae]; Brady & Ward, 2005: 593 [Cerapachyinae].
 * Cerapachyini as formicoid subfamily of Formicidae: Moreau, et al. 2006: 102 [Cerapachyinae].
 * Cerapachyini as senior synonym of Lioponerini: Emery, 1911d: 6.
 * Cerapachyini as senior synonym of Eusphinctinae: Bolton, 1990a: 66.
 * Cerapachyini as formicoid dorylomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Brady, et al. 2006: 18173 [Cerapachyinae]; Ward, 2007a: 555 [Cerapachyinae].
 * Cerapachyini as junior synonym of Dorylinae: Brady, et al. 2014: 5.

Taxonomic References
Emery, 1895j: 765 (diagnosis); Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 136 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911d: 5, 6 (tribes key, diagnosis, genera key); Arnold, 1915: 11 (South Africa genera key); Forel, 1917: 239 (synoptic classification); Wheeler, W.M. 1918a: 224, 239 (Australia genera, key); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 51, 636, 639 (diagnosis, tribes key, genera key); Borgmeier, 1923: 50 (Brazil catalogue); Morley, 1939: 114 (phylogeny); Smith, M.R. 1947f: 528 (U.S.A. diagnosis, genera); Brown, 1954e: 26 (phylogeny, notes); Eisner, 1957: 476 (proventriculus morphology); Wilson, 1959b: 39 (Melanesia fauna); Gotwald, 1969: 43 (mouthparts morphology); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1972a: 37 (diagnosis); Kempf, 1972a: 263 (Neotropical, synoptic classification); Brown, 1975: 11, 14 (revision of tribes and genera, diagnoses, key); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1976b: 46 (larvae, review and synthesis); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1985: 261 (diagnosis); Ogata, 1987: 129 (Japan genera); Bolton, 1990a: 53, 61 (abdominal morphology, diagnosis, synoptic classification, zoogeography); Bolton, 1990c: 1356 (diagnosis, morphology, phylogeny); Brandão, 1991: 390 (Neotropical fauna, synoptic classification, genera); Baroni Urbani, et al. 1992: 316 (phylogeny); Jaffe, 1993: 7 (Neotropical genera, synoptic classification); Lattke, in Jaffe, 1993: 165 (Neotropical genera); Bolton, 1994: 18 (diagnosis, synoptic classification, key to genera); Bolton, 1995a: 1038 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 10 (catalogue); Hölldobler, et al. 1996: 158 (metatibial gland); Shattuck, 1999: 25, 60 (Australia, genera key, synopsis); Andersen, 2000: 33 (northern Australia, genera); Perfil’eva, 2002: 1239 (venation); Palacio & Fernández, in Fernández, 2003d: 238 (Neotropical genera keys); Brady, 2003: 6575 (phylogeny); Bolton, 2003: 32, 137 (diagnosis, synopsis); Brady & Ward, 2005: 593 (phylogeny); Moreau, et al. 2006: 102 (phylogeny); Brady, et al. 2006: 18173 (phylogeny); Ward, 2007a: 555 (classification); Keller, 2011: 1 (morphology, phylogeny); General & Alpert, 2012: 70 (Philippines genera key); Bolton & Fisher, 2012: 7 (diagnosis).

Taxonomic Notes
Shared Characters of Cerapachyini

Bolton and Fisher (2012), treating the genera Simopone, Vicinopone and Tanipone presented the following regarding the tribe:

All three genera treated here fall into tribe Cerapachyini of the subfamily Cerapachyinae, as it is currently constituted, which is a member of the broader dorylomorph group of ant subfamilies (Bolton, 1990a, 1990b, 2003; Brady & Ward, 2005). Because of this the three genera treated here, together with all others in the tribe, share a suite of characters, the most important of which are listed below. As these characters are common to all genera of the tribe they are not duplicated in the diagnoses of the individual genera that are revised here.

1. Prementum not visible when mouthparts are fully retracted; prementum is concealed behind the labrum and lateral outgrowths of the maxillae that meet medially (worker, queen, male).

2. Antennal sockets very close to anterior margin of head; sockets horizontal, in the plane of the transverse axis of the head (worker, queen, male).

3. Promesonotal suture fused across the dorsum, the pronotum not capable of movement relative to the mesonotum; the suture-line itself usually very feeble to absent (worker, some queens).

4. Metacoxal cavities fully closed, without a suture in the annulus (worker, queen, male).

5. Metapleural gland orifice concealed beneath a ventrally directed cuticular flap or flange (worker, queen).

6. Propodeal spiracle low down on side of sclerite (worker, queen, male).

7. Propodeal lobes present (worker, queen, male).

8. Jugal lobe absent from hindwing (alate queen, male).

9. AII (petiole) sessile or subsessile (worker, queen, male).

10. AII (petiole) without tergosternal fusion; AIII (postpetiole) with complete tergosternal fusion; AIV presclerites may be fused but postsclerites always free (worker, queen, male).

11. Helcium attached at about midheight of anterior face of AIII (worker, queen, male).

12. Sternite of helcium large, bulging ventrally and visible in profile (worker, queen, male).

13. AIV with strongly developed presclerites (worker, queen, male).

14. Stridulitrum absent from pretergite of AIV (worker, queen).

15. Spiracles of AV–AVII exposed, visible without distension or dissection of the abdomen (worker, queen, male).

16. Pygidium large, flattened dorsally and equipped with marginal denticles, at least in part (worker, queen).

17. Sting large, functional (worker, queen).

18. Cerci (pygostyles) absent (male).

19. Genitalia completely retractile (male).

20. Hypopygium (subgenital plate) bidentate to biaculeate (male).