Syscia | |
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S. typhla worker | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
Genus: | Syscia Roger, 1861 |
Type species | |
Syscia typhla Roger, 1861
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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]