Syscia
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| 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 | |
| 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]