Discothyrea Roger

Zacharias, M. & Rajan, P. D., 2004, Discothyrea sringerensis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) a new ant species from India., Zootaxa 484, pp. 1-4 : 2

publication ID

20286

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:71E857CE-7DB6-44F7-8DFF-5265C812A018

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6269405

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/86E0B63E-6797-EC2E-BDB3-B7D5F05187FD

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scientific name

Discothyrea Roger
status

 

Discothyrea Roger View in CoL   HNS

Discothyrea Roger   HNS , 1863: 176.

Type species: Discothyrea testacea Roger   HNS , 1863, by monotypy.

Pseudosysphincta Arnold   HNS , 1916: 161.

Type species: Pseudosysphincta poweri Arnold   HNS , 1916 [synonymised by Brown 1958].

Prodiscothyrea Wheeler   HNS , 1916: 33.

Type species: Prodiscothyrea velutina Wheeler   HNS , 1916 [synonymised by Brown 1958].

Pseudosphincta Wheeler   HNS , 1922: 645, 762 [variant spelling of Pseudosysphincta   HNS ].

General diagnosis. Small stocky ants, notable for the exaggerated enlargement of the apical antennal segment. The antennae are 6-12 segmented. Mandibles edentate and overhung by a projecting clypeus. Alitrunk is short and sutureless dorsally (Brown 1958; Bolton 1994).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

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