Syscia chiapaneca, 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 : 23

Syscia chiapaneca , New Species

Figure 11 (map, worker), S16 ( holotype worker), S17 (queen)

Holotype: 1 worker, MEXICO, Chiapas: 19km ENE Tonalá , 16.14775 −93.60918 ± 50m, 1450m, 15-Jul-2007, mixed cloud forest, ex sifted leaf litter ( R. S. Anderson, RSA2007-014 A) [UNAM, unique specimen identifier CASENT0601738]. PARATYPES: same data as holotype [dealate queen, worker: CASC] ; 17km ENE Tonalá , 16.14153 −93.60958 ± 50m, 1650m, 16-Jul-2007, montaine wet forest, ex sifted leaf litter ( M. G. Branstetter, MGB668 ) [worker: MCZC, USNM] .

Figures

Fig. 11. Distribution map, face view, lateral view of petiole-AIV, and dorsal view of AIII-AIV of Syscia madrensis (holotype worker), S. JTL066 (worker, CASENT0610648), S. benevidesae (holotype worker), S. chiapaneca (holotype worker), S. parietalis (holotype worker), S. setosa (holotype worker), S. JTL073 (worker, MCZ-ENT00511569), S. JTL075 (worker, CASENT0601445), S. disjuncta (holotype worker), and S. augustae (worker, CASENT0644275). 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.