Syscia cf.sp.3.of.SKY (*excluded from official named species count)

Material examined. Queen and worker, Mandai Lake Road, 1°24’36.5”N, 103°47’04.0”, 53m, 18 July 2019, J.S. Tan & N.L. Chin leg., Winkler extraction, ZRC _ ENT00028290 .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New genus record.

Localities. Mandai Lake Road

Habitat/Ecology. The ants were found in disturbed mature secondary forest, in leaf litter and upper soil substrate.

Remarks. This is the first record of the genus Syscia in Singapore, though we were unfortunately unable to identify it to named species. The species confers mostly with Syscia sp.3 .of.SKY. Of known species, it looks most similar to Syscia chaladthanyakiji Jaitrong et al., 2020, but with nine antennal segments (instead of 11 in S. chaladthanyakiji), and head with strong posteroventral lamellate flange.