Syscia volucris, 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 : 40

Syscia volucris , New Species

Figure 13 (map, worker), S72 (holotype worker), S73 (queen), S74 (brachypterous queen)

Holotype: 1 worker, NICARAGUA, Región Autónoma del Atlántico Norte: PN Cerro Saslaya, 13.76939 −84.98383 ± 10m, 360m, 7-May-2011, mature wet forest, ex sifted leaf litter (LLAMA, Wa- D-02-1-02) [CASC, unique specimen identifier CASENT0644413] . PARATYPES: same data as holotype [worker: MCZC, UCD, USNM] ; same data except 13.76943 −84.98382 (Wa-D-02-1-01) [worker: DZUP] .

Figures

Fig. 13. Distribution map, face view, lateral view of petiole-AIV, and dorsal view of AIII-AIV of Syscia latepunctata (holotype worker), S. borowieci (holotype worker),S.volucris (holotype worker),S. JTL076 (queen,CASENT0614221),S. JTL064 (worker,CASENT0631661),S. JTL033 (worker,CASENT0611831),S.grandis (holotype worker), and S. JTL003 (worker,INB0003213589).Species are in order of mean HW,which is shown in the lower left of the distribution map.Scale bars 0.2 mm. On distribution maps, red dots are sites with UCE sequence data. Red boxes are type locality.