Discothyrea

Discothyrea
Discothyrea testacea worker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Proceratiinae
Tribe: Proceratiini
Genus: Discothyrea
Roger, 1863
Type species
Discothyrea testacea
Roger, 1863
Diversity[1]
36 species
Synonyms

Prodiscothyrea Wheeler, 1916
Pseudosysphincta Arnold, 1916

Discothyrea is a genus of small ants in the subfamily Proceratiinae.[2] The genus is distributed in the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, where they usually nest in rotten wood, in the leaf litter, or under stones.[3] Little is known about their biology, but ants in this genus are thought to be specialist predators of arthropod eggs and have been observed storing eggs in their nests (probably spider eggs).[4][5]

Species

  • Discothyrea antarctica Emery, 1895
  • Discothyrea banna Xu, Burwell & Nakamura, 2014
  • Discothyrea berlita Fisher, 2005
  • Discothyrea bidens Clark, 1928
  • Discothyrea bryanti (Wheeler, 1917)
  • Discothyrea clavicornis Emery, 1897
  • Discothyrea crassicornis Clark, 1926
  • Discothyrea denticulata Weber, 1939
  • Discothyrea diana Xu, Burwell & Nakamura, 2014
  • †Discothyrea gigas De Andrade, 1998
  • Discothyrea globa Forel, 1905
  • Discothyrea hewitti Arnold, 1916
  • Discothyrea horni Menozzi, 1927
  • Discothyrea humilis Weber, 1939
  • Discothyrea icta Weber, 1939
  • Discothyrea isthmica Weber, 1940
  • Discothyrea kamiteta Kubota & Terayama, 1999
  • Discothyrea leae Clark, 1934
  • †Discothyrea maya De Andrade, 1998
  • Discothyrea mixta Brown, 1958
  • Discothyrea neotropica Bruch, 1919
  • Discothyrea oculata Emery, 1901
  • Discothyrea patrizii Weber, 1949
  • Discothyrea poweri (Arnold, 1916)
  • Discothyrea remingtoni Brown, 1948
  • Discothyrea sauteri Forel, 1912
  • Discothyrea sculptior Santschi, 1913
  • Discothyrea sexarticulata Borgmeier, 1954
  • Discothyrea soesilae Makhan, 2007
  • Discothyrea sringerensis Zacharias & Rajan, 2004
  • Discothyrea stumperi Baroni Urbani, 1977
  • Discothyrea testacea Roger, 1863
  • Discothyrea traegaordhi Santschi, 1914
  • Discothyrea turtoni Clark, 1934
  • Discothyrea velutina (Wheeler, 1916)
  • Discothyrea yueshen Terayama, 2009

References

  1. ↑ Bolton, B. (2014). "Discothyrea". AntCat. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Genus: Discothyrea". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. (2013). "The Ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—Faunal Overview, First Species Checklist, Bibliography, Accounts for All Genera, and Discussion on Taxonomy and Zoogeography". Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2): 127. doi:10.2982/028.101.0201.
  4. ↑ Zacharias, Merry; Rajan, Priyadarsanan Dharma (2004), "Discothyrea sringerensis (Hymenoptera Formicidae).", Zootaxa 484: 1–4
  5. ↑ Katayama, Motoki (2013), "Predatory behaviours of Discothyrea kamiteta (Proceratiinae) on spider eggs.", Kontyû Tokyo 5: 121–124

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