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Cerapachys antennatus Smith, 1857a PDF: 74 (w.) BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak). Indomalaya. Primary type information: Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Malaysia: Borneo, Sarawak (A.R. Wallace). Type-depository: OXUM. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Emery, 1887f PDF: 445 (q.); Wheeler, 1919f PDF: 140 (m.).Combination in Cerapachys (Cerapachys): Emery, 1902c: 24.Status as species: Smith, 1861b PDF: 47; Mayr, 1863a PDF: 403; Roger, 1863b PDF: 25; Smith, 1871a PDF: 329; Emery, 1887f PDF: 445; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 17; Emery, 1901i PDF: 566; Emery, 1902c: 24; Emery, 1911e PDF: 9; Wheeler, 1919f PDF: 45 (redescription); Crawley, 1926 PDF: 387 (redescription of type-material); Donisthorpe, 1932c PDF: 450; Donisthorpe, 1941k PDF: 199; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 18; Brown, 1975 PDF: 22, 59; Bolton, 1995b: 142; Pfeiffer et al., 2011 PDF: 32.Senior synonym of Cerapachys wheeleri: Brown, 1975 PDF: 22; Bolton, 1995b: 142.
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Diagnostic Description

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C. aterrimus, nitidus; antennis brevibus, crassis; thorace oblongo-quadrato; abdomine elongate, nodo quadrate; abdominis segmentis primo et secundo incisura separatis.

Worker, Length 3 1/2 lines. Jet-black, smooth and shining; antennae one-third longer than the head; the scape short and incrassate, clavate; the flagellum incrassate, the joints short and transverse, except the apical one, which is as long as the four preceding joints; the head depressed on each side in front of the eyes; the antenna? inserted at the anterior margin of the head, each at the side of an elevated carina; the mandibles, flagellum and apex of the scape obscurely ferruginous; the posterior margin of the vertex slightly emarginate its entire width, a few scattered minute punctures on the vertex, and a small fossulet in the middle between the eyes." Thorax: oblong-quadrate, with a few scattered punctures above, and a few short erect hairs; the tips of the femora and tarsi, and the apical joints of the latter, pale rufo-testaceous; the basal joint of the anterior tarsi bent; the calcaria white. Abdomen elongate; the peduncle quadrate, a little narrower than the first segment of the abdomen, which has the sides slightly rounded; a deep strangulation between the first and second segments; the apex obliquely truncated, the margins of the truncation finely denticulated.

Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).

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Smith, F., 1857, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, pp. 42-88, vol. 2
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Diagnostic Description

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, Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 74. 1.

Hab. Celebes; Borneo.

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Smith, F., 1861, Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the Islands of Ceram, Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, pp. 36-48, vol. 6
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