Syscia brachyptera, Longino & Branstetter, 2021

Longino, John T. & Branstetter, Michael G., 2021, Integrating UCE Phylogenomics With Traditional Taxonomy Reveals a Trove of New World Syscia Species (Formicidae: Dorylinae), Insect Systematics and Diversity 5 (2), No. 2, pp. 1-51 : 22

Syscia brachyptera , New Species

Figure 9 (map, worker), S14 (holotype worker), S15 (brachypterous queen)

Holotype: 1 worker, HONDURAS, Comayagua: PN Cerro Azul Meambar, 14.87045 −87.90567 ± 70m, 750m, 21-May-2010, montane rainforest, ex sifted leaf litter (LLAMA, Wm-C-04-2-02) [CASC, unique specimen identifier CASENT0644389] . PARATYPES: same data as holotype [worker: CASC, DZUP, JTLC, MCZC, UCD, UNAM, USNM].

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Fig. 9. Distribution map, face view, lateral view of petiole-AIV, and dorsal view of AIII-AIV of Syscia pervagata (holotype worker), S. peten (holotype worker), S. JTL074 (worker,MCZ-ENT00511564),S.brachyptera (holotype worker),S. valenzuelai (holotype worker),S. JTL071 (worker,FMNHINS0000095759),S. quisquillis (holotype worker), S. sumnichti (holotype worker), S. JTL060 (worker, CASENT0644220), and S. JTL085 (worker, CASENT0602939). Scale bars 0.2 mm. Species are in order of mean HW, which is shown in the lower left of the distribution map. On distribution maps, red dots are sites with UCE sequence data. Red boxes are type locality.