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Genus: Discothyrea

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Subfamily: Proceratiinae Genus: Discothyrea

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Extant: 32 species

Fossil: 2 species

Discothyrea Roger, 1863a PDF: 176 Type-species: Discothyrea testacea, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Discothyrea in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1865: 13 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 18.
Discothyrea in Dorylinae, Proceratiini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 765.
Discothyrea in Ponerinae, Proceratiini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 136; Emery, 1911e PDF: 51; Forel, 1917 PDF: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 645; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 640; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 76; Kusnezov, 1964 PDF: 51; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b PDF: 256; Jaffe, 1993: 8; Lattke, 1994 PDF: 112.
Discothyrea in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Brown, 1958g: 248; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 97; Smith, 1979: 1339; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1994: 164.
Discothyrea in Proceratiinae, Proceratiini: Bolton, 2003 PDF: 49, 179.
Genus Discothyrea references
Roger, 1863b PDF: 21 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 13 (diagnosis); Cresson, 1887: 259 (U.S.A., catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1893: 18 (catalogue); Emery, 1911e PDF: 51 (diagnosis, catalogue); Arnold, 1916 PDF: 159 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1922: 761, 762 (Afrotropical Discothyrea, Pseudosysphincta catalogues); Weber, 1939a PDF: 99 (Neotropical species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 76, 77 (Asia Discothyrea, Prodiscothyrea checklists); Brown, 1958g: 248 (review of genus); Brown, 1958h: 19 (New Zealand species); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 97 (Neotropical catalogue); Smith, 1979: 1339 (North America catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 29 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 24 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand checklists); Morisita, Kubota, et al. 1989: 16 (Japan species key); Lattke, 1994 PDF: 113 (Neotropical species); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1049 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 171 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 184 (Australia synopsis); Bolton, 2003 PDF: 179 (synopsis); Sosa-Calvo & Longino, 2008 PDF: 223 (Colombia species key); Yoshimura & Fisher, 2009: 9 (Malagasy males diagnosis); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 98 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 143 (south-western Australia species key).
Genus Discothyrea references
Roger, 1863b PDF: 21 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 13 (diagnosis); Cresson, 1887: 259 (U.S.A., catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1893: 18 (catalogue); Emery, 1911e PDF: 51 (diagnosis, catalogue); Arnold, 1916 PDF: 159 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1922: 761, 762 (Afrotropical Discothyrea, Pseudosysphincta catalogues); Weber, 1939a PDF: 99 (Neotropical species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 76, 77 (Asia Discothyrea, Prodiscothyrea checklists); Brown, 1958g: 248 (review of genus); Brown, 1958h: 19 (New Zealand species); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 97 (Neotropical catalogue); Smith, 1979: 1339 (North America catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 29 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 24 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand checklists); Morisita, Kubota, et al. 1989: 16 (Japan species key); Lattke, 1994 PDF: 113 (Neotropical species); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1049 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 171 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 184 (Australia synopsis); Bolton, 2003 PDF: 179 (synopsis); Sosa-Calvo & Longino, 2008 PDF: 223 (Colombia species key); Yoshimura & Fisher, 2009: 9 (Malagasy males diagnosis); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 98 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 143 (south-western Australia species key); Marcus, 1953: 164 (Fiji species key).

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