• Ooceraea Roger, 1862.

  Type species:

   Ooceraea fragosa Roger, 1862 by monotypy.
• Cysias Emery, 1902.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Borowiec, M.L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1–280

Introduction

Ooceraea is a lineage confined to the Indomalayan and Australasian regions, including the Fijian archipelago (Borowiec 2016).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

Borowiec, M.L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1–280 [191]

History of changes

• Syscia australis Forel, A. 1900. Ponerinae et Dorylinae d'Australie récoltées par MM. Turner, Froggatt, Nugent, Chase, Rothney, J.J. Walker, etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 44: 54-77 [68] [introduced as autralis but used by the original author in 1902 as australis; non Lioponera longitarsus australis Forel, 1895 =Lioponera longitarsus Mayr, 1878 = Cerapachys longitarsus (Mayr, 1878)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH W, Mackay, QLD; ANIC W, Mackay, QLD.
• Syscia australis edentata Forel, A. 1900. Ponerinae et Dorylinae d'Australie récoltées par MM. Turner, Froggatt, Nugent, Chase, Rothney, J.J. Walker, etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 44: 54-77 [69] [introduced as autralis but used by the original author in 1902 as australis)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH W, Mackay, QLD; ANIC W, Mackay, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, W.L. jr 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5: 1-116
• Borowiec, M.L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1–280 [198]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

NE coastal, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal, NSW, ACT, QLD.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, open forest, predator, shrubland, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nests in soil

History of changes

• Cerapachys biroi Forel, A. 1907. Formicides du Musée National Hongrois. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 5: 1-42 [30 June 1907] [7].

Generic Combinations

• Ooceraea biroi (Forel, 1907).

Introduction

Ooceraea biroi is a tramp species that has been more widely introduced across tropical regions of the world, including Australia.
O. biroi is perhaps the best studied doryline species. While army ants like Eciton and Dorylus have been extensively researched in the field, but their huge colonies are exceptionally difficult to manipulate in laboratory conditions, O. biroi is a species much more amenable to experimental manipulation and has been the focal organism for multiple published laboratory-based studies (Borowiec 2016).

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread tropical Asia from where has been imported in many tropical regions

Introduced.

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

Borowiec, M.L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1–280 [196-197]

Framenau, V.W. & Thomas, M.L. 2008. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): identification and distribution. Records of the Western Australian Museum 25: 45-85 [58]

History of changes