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Parasyscia villiersi
| Parasyscia villiersi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | Parasyscia |
| Species: | P. villiersi |
| Binomial name | |
| Parasyscia villiersi (Bernard, 1953)
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Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Guinea (type locality).
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Countries Occupied
| Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species. |
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Estimated Abundance
| Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species. |
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Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- villiersi. Cerapachys villiersi Bernard, 1953b: 215, fig. 6D (w.) GUINEA.
- Type-material: holotype worker.
- Type-locality: Guinea: (Nimba), 700 m., ix.1945, sifted moss, primary forest (Villiers).
- Type-depository: MNHN.
- Combination in Parasyscia: Borowiec, M.L. 2016: 205.
- Status as species: Brown, 1975: 24, 62; Bolton, 1995b: 145.
- Distribution: Guinea.
Description
References
- Bernard, F. 1953b [1952]. La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mém. Inst. Fr. Afr. Noire 19: 165-270 (page 215, fig. 6 worker described)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 145, catalogue)
- Borowiec, M.L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1-280 (doi: 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427).
- Chen, Z., Liang, C., Du, C. 2022. Revision of Chinese species of the ant genus Parasyscia Emery, 1882 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae). Zootaxa 5196(3), 301–330 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5196.3.1).