Ooceraea crypta
(Mann, 1921)
valid
Cerapachys (Syscia) cryptus
Mann, 1921:
408, fig. 1 (w.eq.)
FIJI IS (Viti Levu).
Oceania.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a large colony”), 1 syntype ergatoid queen. Primary type locality: Fiji Is: Viti Levu, Nadarivatu, 1915-16 (W.M. Mann). Primary type depositories: MCZC, USNM.
Type notes:
Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 26, cite 76 worker, 1 queen syntypes (9w MCZC, 67w, 1q USNM).
- [Misspelled as criptus by Dlussky, 1994a: 53 (in list).]
- Wheeler, 1950: 105 (l.)
- Combination in Ooceraea: Borowiec, 2016: 198.
- Status as species: Wheeler, 1935g: 8; Wilson, 1959d: 54; Brown, 1975: 22; Dlussky, 1994a: 53; Bolton, 1995b: 142; Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 26; Zhou et al., 2020: 142 (in key).
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Borowiec, M. L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608:1-280. 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5(1):1-115. PDF
- Dlussky, G. M. 1994a. Zoogeography of southwestern Oceania. [In Russian.]. Pp. 48-93 in: Puzatchenko, Y. G.; Golovatch, S. I.; Dlussky, G. M.; Diakonov, K. N.; Zakharov, A. A.; Korganova, G. A. 1994. Animal populations of the islands of southwestern Oceania (ecogeographic studies). [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 254 pp.
- Mann, W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64:401-499. PDF
- Sarnat, E. M.; Economo, E. P. 2012. The ants of Fiji. University of California Publications in Entomology, Volume 132. Berkeley: University of California Press, xiii + 384 pp. PDF
- Wheeler, G. C. 1950. Ant larvae of the subfamily Cerapachyinae. Psyche (Cambridge) 57:102-113. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
- Wilson, E. O. 1959d. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. VI. The tribe Cerapachyini. Pacific Insects 1:39-57. PDF
- Zhou, S. Y.; Chen, D. N.; Chen, Z. L. 2020. Discovery of novel Ooceraea (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae) species with 8-segmented antennae from China. Sociobiology 67 (2):139-143. 10.13102/sociobiology.v67i2.3740 PDF
†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
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