Cerapachys

Cerapachys (common names include "raider ant" and "ant-raiding ant")^[2] is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae.^[3] Species are mainly myrmecophagous ants which raid the nests of other ants for prey. The genus is distributed widely throughout the Indomalayan region.^[4] The genus was revised by BoroWiec (2016) who split a number of previously synonymized genera out of Cerapachys, leaving only 5 species in the genus.^[1][5]

Cerapachys
C. biroi worker from Madagascar
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dorylinae
Genus:	Cerapachys Smith, 1857
Type species
Cerapachys antennatus
Diversity[1]
5 species
Synonyms
Ceratopachys Schulz, 1906 Cysias Emery, 1902 Neophyracaces Clark, 1941 Parasyscia Emery, 1882 Phyracaces Emery, 1902

Species

• Cerapachys anokha (Bharti & Akbar, 2013)
• Cerapachys antennatus (Smith, 1857)
• Cerapachys aranus (Bolton, 1995)
• Cerapachys crawleyi (Wheeler, 1924)
• Cerapachys doryloides (Borowiec, M. L., 2009)^[6]
• Cerapachys edentatus (Forel, 1900)
• Cerapachys eguchii (Borowiec, M. L., 2009)^[6]
• Cerapachys iaianstewarti (Fisher, 2007)^[7]
• Cerapachys incontentus (Brown, 1975)
• Cerapachys latus (Brown, 1975)
• Cerapachys lividus (Brown, 1975)
• Cerapachys manni (Crawley, 1926)
• Cerapachys neotropicus (Weber, 1939)
• Cerapachys paradoxus (Borowiec, M. L., 2009)^[6]
• Cerapachys princeps (Clark, 1934)
• Cerapachys splendens (Borgmeier, 1957)
• Cerapachys sulcinodis (Emery, 1889)
• Cerapachys wroughtoni (Forel, 1910)
• Cerapachys xizangensis (Tang & Li, 1982)