Parasyscia is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae containing approximately 50 described species.[1] The genus is distributed across the Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Oceania, and Palearctic bioregions.[2] Parasyscia was described by Carlo Emery (1882), moved to a subgenus of Cerapachys by Forel (1892) and finally placed as a junior synonym of Cerapachys by Kempf (1972). Parasyscia was resurrected as a valid genus by Borowiec (2016) during the redescription of the doryline genera.[3]

Parasyscia
Parasyscia piochardi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Parasyscia
Emery, 1882
Type species
Parasyscia piochardi
Emery, 1882
Diversity[1]
51 species

Species

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References

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  1. ^ a b Bolton, B. (2021). "Parasyscia". AntCat. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Genus: Parasyscia". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  3. ^ Borowiec, M. (2016). "Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". ZooKeys (608): 1–280. Bibcode:2016ZooK..608....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.608.9427. PMC 4982377. PMID 27559303.