Discothyrea antarctica

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Discothyrea antarctica Emery, 1895 valid

Discothyrea antarctica Emery, 1895d: 266 (footnote) (w.) NEW ZEALAND. Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: New Zealand: North Island, Hunua Range, 26.i.1891 (Broun). Primary type depository: MSNG. Type notes: Emery, 1895f: 636, provides Hunua Range as locality, and the collection date.

[Also described as new by Emery, 1895f: 636.]
Brown, 1958h: 19 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1971b: 1202 (l.)
Status as species: Forel, 1905d: 354; Emery, 1911e: 52; Wheeler, 1935g: 11; Smith & Wing, 1955: 108; Brown, 1958g: 253; Brown, 1958h: 19; Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 102; Taylor, 1987a: 24; Bolton, 1995b: 171; Don, 2007: 57.

Citations

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
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958h. A review of the ants of New Zealand. Acta Hymenopterologica 1:1-50. PDF
Don, W. 2007. Ants of New Zealand. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 239 pp.
Emery, C. 1895d. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamerikanischen Ameisenfauna. (Schluss). Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 8:257-360. PDF
Emery, C. 1895f ("1894"). On a new species of ant from New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 27:635-636. PDF
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Forel, A. 1905d. A revision of the species of the Formicidae (ants) of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 37:353-355. PDF
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
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1971b. Ant larvae of the subfamily Ponerinae: second supplement. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 64:1197-1217. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
Wilson, E. O.; Taylor, R. W. 1967b. The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 14:1-109. PDF

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