Syscia indica Aswaj, Sahanashree, Udayakantha, Aniruddha & Priyadarsanan, 2021

Du, Congcong, Xu, Zhenghui & Chen, Zhilin, 2024, Taxonomic account of the ant genus Syscia Roger, 1816 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Asia, with descriptions of two new species from China, European Journal of Taxonomy 930, pp. 157-181 : 168

Syscia indica Aswaj, Sahanashree, Udayakantha, Aniruddha & Priyadarsanan, 2021

Fig. 5

Syscia indica Aswaj et al., 2021: 67 , figs 1, 3a–f (w.). India (Arunachal Pradesh).

Diagnosis

Workers have 11-segmented antennae. Head in full-face view subrectangular, distinctly longer than broad; lateral margins slightly convex. Mesosoma in dorsal view elongates with almost parallel lateral sides; in lateral view, dorsal outline almost straight. Petiole in dorsal view subrectangular, distinctly longer than broad; lateral margins almost parallel-sided; in lateral view (excluding sternite) trapezoidal, slightly shorter than high, dorsal outline slightly convex, bilateral edge slope slightly; subpetiolar process in lateral view subrectangular, ventral outline strongly concave; ventrolateral surface of petiole with two distinct almost parallel carinae just above subpetiolar process. Postpetiole in lateral view slightly shorter than high, sternite anteroventrally produced as blunt angle directed downward and forward.

Type material

Unexamined. But holotype of S. indica was examined from images available from Aswaj et al. (2021).

Figures

Fig. 5. Syscia indica Aswaj, Sahanashree, Udayakantha, Aniruddha & Priyadarsanan, 2021, holotype, worker. A. Head in full-face view. B. Petiole and postpetiole in dorsal view. C. Body in dorsal view D. Body in lateral view (images cited from Aswaj et al. 2021).