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Genus: Discothyrea

Taxonomic Hierarchy:

Subfamily: Proceratiinae Genus: Discothyrea

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2010)

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

Taxonomic history

Discothyrea in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1865: 13 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 18.

Discothyrea in Dorylinae, Proceratiini: Emery, 1895j: 765.

Discothyrea in Ponerinae, Proceratiini: Ashmead, 1905b: 382; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 136; Emery, 1911d: 51; Forel, 1917: 236; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 645; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 640; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 76; Kusnezov, 1964: 51; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1985: 256; Jaffe, 1993: 8; Lattke, 1994: 112.

Discothyrea in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Brown, 1958g: 248; Kempf, 1972a: 97; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1339; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78; H?lldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1994: 164.

Discothyrea in Proceratiinae, Proceratiini: Bolton, 2003: 49, 179.

Junior synonyms of DISCOTHYREA

Prodiscothyrea Wheeler, W.M. 1916i: 33. Type-species: Prodiscothyrea velutina, by monotypy.

Taxonomic history

Prodiscothyrea in Ponerinae, Proceratiini: Wheeler, W.M. 1916i: 36; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 645; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 687; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 77.

Prodiscothyrea as junior synonym of Discothyrea: Brown, 1958g: 248.

Pseudosysphincta Arnold, 1916: 161. Type-species: Pseudosysphincta poweri, by original designation.

Taxonomic history

Pseudosysphincta in Ponerinae, Proceratiini: Forel, 1917: 236; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 645; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 723.

Pseudosysphincta as junior synonym of Discothyrea: Brown, 1958g: 248.

[Pseudosphincta Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 645, incorrect subsequent spelling.]

Genus Discothyrea references

Roger, 1863b: 21 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 13 (diagnosis); Cresson, 1887: 259 (U.S.A., catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1893: 18 (catalogue); Emery, 1911d: 51 (diagnosis, catalogue); Arnold, 1916: 159 (diagnosis); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 761, 762 (Afrotropical Discothyrea, Pseudosysphincta catalogues); Weber, 1939a: 99 (Neotropical species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 76, 77 (Asia Discothyrea, Prodiscothyrea checklists); Brown, 1958g: 248 (review of genus); Brown, 1958h: 19 (New Zealand species); Kempf, 1972a: 97 (Neotropical catalogue); Smith, D.R. 1979: 1339 (North America catalogue); Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 29 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 24 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand checklists); Morisita, Kubota, et al. 1989: 16 (Japan species key); Lattke, 1994: 113 (Neotropical species); Bolton, 1995a: 1049 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 171 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 184 (Australia synopsis); Bolton, 2003: 179 (synopsis); Sosa-Calvo & Longino, 2008: 223 (Colombia species key); Yoshimura & Fisher, 2009: 9 (Malagasy males diagnosis); Terayama, 2009: 98 (Taiwan species key).