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Tribe Cerapachyini - Cerapachyine Army Ants

Male ant? - Acanthostichus - male Syscia augustae Acanthostichus - male Acanthostichus - male Acanthostichus sp. male - Acanthostichus - male Male, Acanthostichus? - Acanthostichus - male Young queen? Cerapachyini? Perhaps Syscia augustae? - Syscia augustae Young queen? Cerapachyini? Perhaps Syscia augustae? - Syscia augustae
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Formicoidea (Ants)
Family Formicidae (Ants)
Subfamily Dorylinae (Army Ants)
Tribe Cerapachyini (Cerapachyine Army Ants)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Extremely paraphyletic group, used to be a subfamily (Cerapachinae). This is an outdated morphological group of more wormy/cylindrical dorylines that are not "classic" army ants.
Numbers
18 or so genera worldwide, 2 in our area with 5 species combined. Leptanilloides was not considered to be in this group (1 sp., L. chihuahuaensis from the Davis Mountains of west Texas).