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Cysias
| Cysias | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | Cysias Emery, 1902 |
| Type species | |
| Ooceraea papuana
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Ooceraea.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- CYSIAS [junior synonym of Ooceraea]
- Cysias Emery, 1902c: 24 [as subgenus of Cerapachys]. Type-species: Ooceraea papuana, by original designation.
- Cysias raised to genus: Ashmead, 1905b: 382.
- Cysias subgenus of Cerapachys: Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 137.
- Cysias junior synonym of Syscia: Emery, 1911d: 10.
- Cysias junior synonym of Cerapachys: Kempf, 1972a: 76; see also Brown, 1975: 19.
- Cysias junior synonym of Ooceraea: Borowiec, 2016: 191.
References
- Ashmead, W. H. 1905c. A skeleton of a new arrangement of the families, subfamilies, tribes and genera of the ants, or the superfamily Formicoidea. Can. Entomol. 37: 381-384 (page 382, Cysias in Ponerinae, Cerapachyini; as genus)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 141, Cysias as junior synonym of Cerapachys)
- Borowiec, M.L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1-280 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.608.9427).
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search Agric. (Ithaca N. Y.) 5(1 1: 1-115 (page 19, Cysias junior synonym of Cerapachys)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 617-688 (page 637, Cysias as subgenus of Cerapachys)
- Emery, C. 1902c. Note mirmecologiche. Rend. Sess. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna (n.s.) 6: 22-34 (page 24, Cysias as subgenus of Cerapachys)
- Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125 (page 10, Cysias as junior synonym of Syscia)
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da regia~o Neotropical. Stud. Entomol. 15: 3-344 (page 76, Cysias junior synonym of Cerapachys)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910b. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. (page 137, Cysias as subgenus of Cerapachys)