ASIAN
MYRMECOLOGY
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DOI: 10.20362/am.017001
Asian Myrmecology 17: 017001 (1-7)
article first published online: 31/May/2024
Taxonomy of the ant genus Cerapachys Smith, 1857 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in China with description of a new species
CONG LIU1, FRANCISCO HITA GARCIA2, YAN-QIONG PENG3 & NAOMI E. PIERCE1
Abstract:
In this study, we update the taxonomy of the ant genus Cerapachys in China. A recent survey of the leaf litter ant fauna in the Hengduan Mountains yielded a hitherto unknown species of Cerapachys, which we describe here as Cerapachys zhengyangwangi sp. nov. This new species is clearly distinguishable from all the other species in the genus. We provide an updated identification key of the genus Cerapachys based on the worker caste, as well as a diagnostic discussion and high-quality specimen images.
Keywords:
Cerapachys, Formicidae, China, Hengduan Mountains, Gaoligong Mountains, taxonomy,
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CONG LIU1, FRANCISCO HITA GARCIA2, YAN-QIONG PENG3 & NAOMI E. PIERCE1
Abstract:
In this study, we update the taxonomy of the ant genus Cerapachys in China. A recent survey of the leaf litter ant fauna in the Hengduan Mountains yielded a hitherto unknown species of Cerapachys, which we describe here as Cerapachys zhengyangwangi sp. nov. This new species is clearly distinguishable from all the other species in the genus. We provide an updated identification key of the genus Cerapachys based on the worker caste, as well as a diagnostic discussion and high-quality specimen images.
Keywords:
Cerapachys, Formicidae, China, Hengduan Mountains, Gaoligong Mountains, taxonomy,
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The pdf file for this manuscript was updated on Oct 10, 2024 to include associated ZooBank IDs for new species descriptions
1Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
2Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery, Museum fur Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany
3CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China
*Corresponding author: cong.liu0514@gmail.com
