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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
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Proceratiinae
›
Proceratiini
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Discothyrea
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Discothyrea hewitti
Discothyrea
hewitti
Arnold, 1916
junior synonym of current valid taxon
Discothyrea traegaordhi
Santschi, 1914
Discothyrea hewitti
Arnold, 1916
: 160 (q.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: 2 syntype queens. Type-locality: South Africa: Grahamstown (= Makhanda), −33.3, 26.53333, ca. 533 m, iv.1915 (
Hewitt
). Type-depositories:
AMGC
,
SAMC
. Type-specimen: SAM-ENT-11508 (
SAMC
).
Status as species:
Wheeler, 1922
: 761;
Smith & Wing, 1955
: 107;
Brown, 1958g
: 253;
Bolton, 1995b
: 171.
Junior synonym of
Discothyrea traegaordhi
:
Hita Garcia
et al.
, 2019
: 72
Citations
Arnold, G.
1916.
A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part II. Ponerinae, Dorylinae.
Annals of the South African Museum 14:159-270.
PDF
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr.
1958g.
Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera).
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:173-362.
PDF
Hita Garcia, F.
;
Lieberman, Z.
;
Audisio, T. L.
;
Liu, C.
;
Economo, E. P.
2019.
Revision of the highly specialized ant genus
Discothyrea
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropics with X-ray microtomography and 3D cybertaxonomy.
Insect Systematics and Diversity 3 (6): 5:1-84.
10.1093/isd/ixz015
PDF
Smith, M. R.
;
Wing, M. W.
1955 ("1954").
Redescription of
Discothyrea
testacea
Roger, a little-known North American ant, with notes on the genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Journal of the New York Entomological Society 62:105-112.
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Wheeler, W. M.
1922.
Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition.
New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
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