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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Dorylinae
›
Syscia
›
Syscia augustae
Syscia
augustae
(Wheeler, 1902)
valid
Cerapachys (Parasyscia) augustae
Wheeler, 1902e
: 182, figs. 1, 2 (w.eq.) U.S.A. (Texas). Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: 11 syntype workers, 1 syntype ergatoid queen. Type-locality: 10 workers, 1 queen U.S.A.: Texas, Austin, banks of Waller Creek, 11.v.1902 (
A. Rucker
), 1 worker Texas, Austin, Pease Park, 22.v.1902 (
C.T. Brues
). Type-depositories:
MCZC
,
MSNG
.
Wheeler, 1903j
: 206 (l.);
Wheeler, 1950
: 106 (l.);
Smith, 1942b
: 63 (m.).
[Note: the male described by
Smith, 1942b
: 63, was referred to
Acanthostichus
by
Borowiec, 2016
: 69.]
Combination in
Syscia
:
Borowiec, 2016
: 224
Status as species:
Wheeler, 1903j
: 205;
Wheeler, 1908h
: 401;
Wheeler, 1910a
: 561;
Emery, 1911e
: 9;
Smith, 1942b
: 63;
Creighton, 1950a
: 58;
Smith, 1951c
: 782;
Smith, 1958c
: 110;
Brown, 1975
: 22, 74;
Hunt & Snelling, 1975
: 20;
Smith, 1979
: 1333;
Bolton, 1995b
: 142;
Mackay & Mackay, 2002
: 42;
Ward, 2005
: 26;
Longino & Branstetter, 2021
: 16 (redescription).
Obsolete combinations
Cerapachys augustae
Citations
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borowiec, M. L.
2016.
Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae).
ZooKeys 608:1-280.
10.3897/zookeys.608.9427
PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr.
1975.
Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini.
Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5(1):1-115.
PDF
Creighton, W. S.
1950a.
The ants of North America.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585.
PDF
Emery, C.
1911e.
Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae.
Genera Insectorum 118:1-125.
PDF
Hunt, J. H.
;
Snelling, R. R.
1975.
A checklist of the ants of Arizona.
Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 10:20-23.
PDF
Longino, J. T.
;
Branstetter, M. G.
2021.
Integrating UCE phylogenomics with traditional taxonomy reveals a trove of New World
Syscia
species (Formicidae: Dorylinae).
Insect Systematics and Diversity 5(2):1-51.
10.1093/isd/ixab001
PDF
Mackay, W.
;
Mackay, E.
2002.
The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp.
PDF
Smith, D. R.
1979.
Superfamily Formicoidea.
Pp. 1323-1467 in:
Krombein, K. V.
;
Hurd, P. D.
;
Smith, D. R.
;
Burks, B. D.
(eds.) 1979.
Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata).
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Smith, M. R.
1942b.
The males of two North American cerapachyine ants.
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 44:62-64.
PDF
Smith, M. R.
1951c.
Family Formicidae.
Pp. 778-875 in:
Muesebeck, C. F. W.
;
Krombein, K. V.
;
Townes, H. K.
(eds.) 1951.
Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture.
Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420.
PDF
Smith, M. R.
1958c.
Family Formicidae.
Pp. 108-162 in:
Krombein, K. V.
(ed.) 1958.
Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture.
Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305.
PDF
Ward, P. S.
2005.
A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Zootaxa 936:1-68.
PDF
Wheeler, G. C.
1950.
Ant larvae of the subfamily Cerapachyinae.
Psyche (Cambridge) 57:102-113.
PDF
Wheeler, W. M.
1902e.
An American
Cerapachys
, with remarks on the affinities of the Cerapachyinae.
Biological Bulletin (Woods Hole) 3:181-191.
PDF
Wheeler, W. M.
1903j.
Some notes on the habits of
Ceraphachys augustae
.
Psyche (Cambridge) 10:205-209.
PDF
Wheeler, W. M.
1908h.
The ants of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. (Part I.).
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:399-485.
PDF
Wheeler, W. M.
1910a.
Ants: their structure, development and behavior.
New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp.
PDF
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