Ooceraea

Ooceraea is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae containing approximately 16 described species.[1] The genus is distributed across the Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Neotropical, Oceania, and Palearctic bioregions.[2] Ooceraea was described by Roger (1862) and later placed as a junior synonym of Cerapachys by Brown (1973). Ooceraea was resurrected as a valid genus by Borowiec (2016) during redescription of the doryline genera.[3]

Ooceraea
Ooceraea biroi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain:Eukaryota
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Hymenoptera
Family:Formicidae
Subfamily:Dorylinae
Genus:Ooceraea
Roger, 1862
Type species
Ooceraea fragosa
Roger, 1862
Diversity[1]
16 species

Species

  • Ooceraea alii (Bharti & Akbar, 2013)
  • Ooceraea australis (Forel, 1900)
  • Ooceraea besucheti (Brown, 1975)
  • Ooceraea biroi (Forel, 1907)
  • Ooceraea coeca Mayr, 1897
  • Ooceraea crypta (Mann, 1921)
  • Ooceraea decamera Bharti et al., 2021
  • Ooceraea fragosa Roger, 1862
  • Ooceraea fuscior (Mann, 1921)
  • Ooceraea guizhouensis (Zhou, 2006)
  • Ooceraea joshii Bharti et al., 2021
  • Ooceraea octoantenna (Zhou et al, 2020)
  • Ooceraea papuana Emery, 1897
  • Ooceraea pawa (Mann, 1919)
  • Ooceraea pusilla Emery, 1897
  • Ooceraea quadridentata Yamada et al., 2018

References