Syscia

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Syscia
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S. typhla worker
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Syscia
Roger, 1861
Type species
Syscia typhla
Roger, 1861
Diversity [1]
38 species

Syscia is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae containing thirty eight described species. [1] The genus is distributed widely across the Eastern Asia, North America, and South America. [2] Syscia was described by Roger (1861), later placed as a Cerapachys subgenus by Wheeler (1902) and then junior synonym of Cerapachys by Kempf (1972). Syscia was resurrected as a valid genus by Borowiec (2016) during redescription of the doryline genera. [3]

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 Bolton, B. (2021). "Syscia". AntCat. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  2. "Genus: Syscia". antweb.org. AntWeb . Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  3. Borowiec, M. (2016). "Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". ZooKeys (608): 1–280. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 . PMC   4982377 . PMID   27559303.