• Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 172; Xu et al., 2014a: 35 (in key); Bharti et al., 2015: 124 (in key); Bharti et al., 2016: 53.

Citations

• Baroni Urbani, C. 1977f. Discothyrea Stumperi n. sp. du Bhoutan, premier représentant du genre dans le Subcontinent Indien (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Archives. Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg (n.s.)37:97-101.
• Bharti, H.; Akbar, S. A.; Singh, J. 2015. Discothyrea periyarensis sp. n., a new proceratiine ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Proceratiinae) from India. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (1):121-124. PDF
• Bharti, H.; Guénard, B.; Bharti, M.; Economo, E. P. 2016. An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 551:1-83. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Xu, Z.-H.; Burwell, C. J.; Nakamura, A. 2014a. Two new species of the proceratiine ant genus Discothyrea Roger from Yunnan, China, with a key to the known Oriental species. Asian Myrmecology 6:33-41. PDF