''Syscia'' is a
genus
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of
ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22 ...
s in the
subfamily
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Dorylinae
Dorylinae is an ant subfamily, with distributions in both the Old World and New World. Brady ''et al.'' (2014) synonymized the previous dorylomorph subfamilies (Aenictinae, Aenictogitoninae, Cerapachyinae, Ecitoninae, and Leptanilloidinae) under ...
containing thirty eight described species.
The genus is distributed widely across the
Eastern Asia
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,
North America
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, and
South America
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.
''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.
Species
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Syscia amblyogyna''
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Syscia atitlana''
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Syscia augustae''
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Syscia austrella''
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Syscia benevidesae''
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Syscia borowieci''
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Syscia boudinoti''
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Syscia brachyptera''
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Syscia chaladthanyakiji''
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Syscia chiapaneca''
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Syscia disjuncta''
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Syscia grandis''
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Syscia honduriana''
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Syscia humicola''
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Syscia jennierussae''
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Syscia lacandona''
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Syscia latepunctata''
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Syscia machaquila''
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Syscia madrensis''
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Syscia minuta''
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Syscia murillocruzae''
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Syscia parietalis''
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Syscia parva''
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Syscia persimilis''
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Syscia pervagata''
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Syscia peten''
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Syscia pollula''
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Syscia quisquilis''
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Syscia reticularis''
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Syscia setosa''
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Syscia sumnichti''
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Syscia ticomontana''
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Syscia tolteca''
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Syscia transisthmica''
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Syscia truncata''
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Syscia typhla''
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Syscia valenzuelai''
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Syscia volucris''
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q107185524
Dorylinae
Ant genera