''Syscia'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
ant
Ants are Eusociality, eusocial insects of the Family (biology), family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the Taxonomy (biology), order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from Vespoidea, vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cre ...
s in the
subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end botanical subfamily names with "-oideae", and zo ...
Dorylinae
Dorylinae is an ant subfamily, with distributions in both the Old World and New World. Brady ''et al.'' (2014) Synonym (taxonomy), synonymized the previous dorylomorph subfamilies (Aenictinae, Aenictogitoninae, Cerapachyinae, Ecitoninae, and Lep ...
containing thirty eight described species.
The genus is distributed widely across the
Eastern Asia
East Asia is a geocultural region of Asia. It includes China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan, plus two special administrative regions of China, Hong Kong and Macau. The economies of China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan ...
,
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South Ameri ...
, and
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
.
''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
''Syscia'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae containing thirty eight described species. The genus is distributed widely across the Eastern Asia, North America, and South America
South America is a continent entirely in the W ...
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References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q107185524
Dorylinae
Ant genera