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 | |
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| Parasyscia piochardi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | Parasyscia Emery, 1882 |
| Type species | |
| Parasyscia piochardi Emery, 1882
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| Diversity[1] | |
| 51 species | |
Species
edit- Parasyscia afer (Forel, 1907)
- Parasyscia aitkenii (Forel, 1900)
- Parasyscia arnoldi (Forel, 1914)
- Parasyscia browni (Bharti & Wachkoo, 2013)
- Parasyscia bryanti (Wheeler, 1919)
- Parasyscia centurio (Brown, 1975)
- Parasyscia conservata (Viehmeyer, 1913)
- Parasyscia cribrinodis (Emery, 1899)
- Parasyscia desposyne (Wilson, 1959)
- Parasyscia dohertyi (Emery, 1902)
- Parasyscia dominula (Wilson, 1959)
- Parasyscia faurei (Arnold, 1949)
- Parasyscia flavaclavata (Donisthorpe, 1938)
- Parasyscia fossulata (Forel, 1895)
- Parasyscia foveolata (Radchenko, 1993)
- Parasyscia hashimotoi (Terayama, 1996)
- Parasyscia imerinensis Forel, 1891
- Parasyscia inconspicua (Emery, 1901)
- Parasyscia indica (Brown, 1975)
- Parasyscia kenyensis (Consani, 1951)
- Parasyscia keralensis (Karmaly, 2012)
- Parasyscia kodecorum (Brown, 1975)
- Parasyscia lamborni (Crawley, 1923)
- Parasyscia lindrothi (Wilson, 1959)
- Parasyscia luteoviger (Brown, 1975)
- Parasyscia majuscula (Mann, 1921)
- Parasyscia muiri (Wheeler & Chapman, 1925)
- Parasyscia natalensis (Forel, 1901)
- Parasyscia nitens (Donisthorpe, 1949)
- Parasyscia nitidulus (Brown, 1975)
- Parasyscia opaca (Emery, 1901)
- Parasyscia peringueyi Emery, 1886
- Parasyscia piochardi Emery, 1882
- Parasyscia polynikes (Wilson, 1959)
- Parasyscia reticulata (Emery, 1923)
- Parasyscia rifati Sharaf & Akbar, 2018
- Parasyscia rufithorax (Wheeler & Chapman, 1925)
- Parasyscia salimani (Karavaiev, 1925)
- Parasyscia schoedli (Bharti & Akbar, 2013)
- Parasyscia sculpturata (Mann, 1921)
- Parasyscia seema (Bharti & Akbar, 2013)
- Parasyscia sudanensis (Weber, 1942)
- Parasyscia superata (Wilson, 1959)
- Parasyscia sylvicola (Arnold, 1955)
- Parasyscia terricola (Mann, 1919)
- Parasyscia valida (Arnold, 1960)
- Parasyscia villiersi (Bernard, 1953)
- Parasyscia vitiensis (Mann, 1921)
- Parasyscia wighti (Bharti & Akbar, 2013)
- Parasyscia wittmeri (Collingwood, 1985)
- Parasyscia zimmermani (Wilson, 1959)
References
edit- ^ a b Bolton, B. (2021). "Parasyscia". AntCat. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
- ^ "Genus: Parasyscia". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
- ^ 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.