Cerapachys vespula (Weber)
  Type location Kenya (Phyracaces
vespula new species, Weber, 1949a: 5, illustrated antenna, worker;
combination
in Cerapachys by Brown, 1975: 24) collected at Kavirondo at
nearly 5000 feet asl, 17.ii.1948, by N A Weber - no type images on Antweb (March 2015)
junior synonym cooperi
(Phyracaces Cooperi n. sp., Arnold, 1915: 18, worker; synonymy by Brown, 1975: 24) from South
Africa, Umgani, Durban, C B Cooper
worker only described  .
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 Weber's (1949a) description is at  . Arnold's (1915) description of Phyracaces
cooperi is at  .
Note the Arnold specimens were notably longer, TL
4.2-4,5 mm;
than those described by Weber, TL 3.8 mm.
The nomenclatorial oddity is due to prior naming, on an
earlier page, of Cerapachys cooperi by Arnold (1915: 14) and
the reduction of that to a junior synonym of Cerapachys afer
Forel (1907) by Brown ((1975: 22).
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The
photomontage of the holotype worker of cooperi is collated from