• Syscia in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862: 714 (in key) [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865: 15 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 17.
• Syscia in Dorylinae, Cerapachyini: Emery, 1895l: 765.
• Syscia in Ponerinae, Cerapachyini: Forel, 1893b: 162; Forel, 1900f: 329; Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Syscia as genus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 17; Forel, 1900f: 329; Bingham, 1903: 31.
• Syscia as subgenus of Cerapachys: Wheeler, 1902e: 185; Emery, 1902c: 24; Wheeler, 1910a: 137; Emery, 1911e: 10; Forel, 1917: 239; Wheeler, 1922: 639; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 730.
• Syscia as junior synonym of Cerapachys: Kempf, 1972b: 76; Brown, 1975: 18; all subsequent authors.
• Revived status as genus: Borowiec, 2016: 219

Obsolete classifications

• Cerapachys (Syscia)
• Ponera (Syscia)

Citations

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