Chrysapace
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| Chrysapace Temporal range: Priabonian - Recent | |
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| C. crawleyi worker | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | Chrysapace Crawley, 1924 |
| Type species | |
| Chrysapace jacobsoni Crawley, 1924 | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 38 species | |
Chrysapace is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae containing four described species.[1] The genus is distributed across the Malaysian peninsula, Indonesia, and the Philippines, with undescribed species from Madagascar and from Baltic amber[2][3][4] Chrysapace was described by Crawley (1924) and later placed as a junior synonym of Cerapachys by Brown (1975). Chrysapace was resurrected as a valid genus by Borowiec (2016) during redescription of the doryline genera.[2]