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Genus of ants

Chrysapace
Temporal range: Priabonian–Recent PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N Priabonian - Recent
C. crawleyi worker
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
38 species

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

Species

References

  1. ^ Bolton, B. (2021). "Chrysapace". AntCat. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  2. ^ Borowiec, M. (2016). "Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". ZooKeys (608): 1–280. Bibcode:2016ZooK..608....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.608.9427. PMC 4982377. PMID 27559303.
  3. "Genus: Chrysapace". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  4. Yamada, Aiki; Lin, Chung-Chi; Eguchi, Katsuyuki (2019-12-01). "Taxonomic notes on the rare ant genus Chrysapace with description of a new species from Brunei (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae)". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 59 (2): 467–480. doi:10.2478/aemnp-2019-0036. ISSN 1804-6487. S2CID 211021910.
Taxon identifiers
Chrysapace
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