Three new species of the ant genera Ooceraea and Syscia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae) from Sabah, Borneo

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Yamane, Seiki, Mizuno, Riou (2024): Three new species of the ant genera Ooceraea and Syscia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae) from Sabah, Borneo. Asian Myrmecology (e 017004) 17: 1-14, DOI: 10.20362/am.017004, URL: dx.doi.org/10.20362/am.017004 ABSTRACT. Two new species of Syscia and one new species of Ooceraea (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) are described from Sabah, Borneo, East Malaysia.

The queens available for two species of Syscia, and the male of one Sysci a species are described. The brachypterous queen of S. yekzoeae has large eyes, a complete set of ocelli, a normal female thorax, and vestigial wings with no closed cell. This represents the first record of a brachypterous Syscia queen from the Old World.