Discothyrea traegaordhi

Discothyrea traegaordhi Santschi, 1914 valid

Discothyrea traegaordhi Santschi, 1914e: 3 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Type-material: neotype worker (by designation of Hita Garcia et al., 2019: 72). Type-locality: neotype South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal, Town Bush, nr Pietermaritzburg (-29.5616, 30.323), 900 m., native forest, 20.i.1977 (W.L. & D.E. Brown). Type-depository: BMNH. Type-specimen: CASENT0790122. Type notes: Data of original holotype: South Africa: Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 21.iii.1905 (I. Trägårdh), deposited in NHMB; specimen lost (Hita Garcia et al., 2019: 75). It was earlier recorded as present by Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 131, who noted it had, “only 1 antenna”.

Neotype designation: Hita Garcia et al., 2019: 72.
Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 761; Arnold, 1926: 198; Smith & Wing, 1955: 107; Brown, 1958g: 253, 340; Bolton, 1995b: 172; Hita Garcia et al., 2019: 72 (redescription)
Senior synonym of Discothyrea hewitti: Hita Garcia et al., 2019: 72

Junior synonyms

Discothyrea hewitti Arnold, 1916

Citations

Arnold, G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum 23:191-295. PDF
Baroni Urbani, C. 1973b. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel. Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)23:122-152.
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
Santschi, F. 1914e. Meddelanden från Göteborgs Musei Zoologiska Afdelning. 3. Fourmis du Natal et du Zoulouland récoltées par le Dr. I. Trägårdh. Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar 15:1-44.
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. PDF
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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