Discothyrea patrizii

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Discothyrea patrizii Weber, 1949 valid

Discothyrea patrizzii Weber, 1949b: 2, fig. (w.q.) KENYA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Kenya: ca 01°38’S, 35°17’E, 5.ii.1948, high east African plains, densely wooded donga or ravine, floor cover of leaves and humus, 5500-5800 ft (1670 to 1770 m), (AMNH Central Africa Expd.) (N.A. Weber). Primary type depository: AMNH. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 1 paratype worker. Secondary type locality: Kenya: Nairobi, [-1.317, 36.763, ca. 1750 m], 1945 (S. Patrizi). Secondary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type specimen: MCZ_Type_32184. Type notes: Hita Garcia et al., 2019: 59, write, “holotype presumed lost, not at MCZC”; but in the original description Weber, 1949b states that the holotype is deposited in AMNH.

[Justified emendation of spelling to Discothyrea patrizii: Brown, 1958g: 253.]
Status as species: Smith & Wing, 1955: 107; Brown, 1958g: 253; Bolton, 1995b: 171; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 222; Hita Garcia et al., 2019: 59 (redescription).

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
Hita Garcia, F.; Lieberman, Z.; Audisio, T. L.; Liu, C.; Economo, E. P. 2019. Revision of the highly specialized ant genus Discothyrea (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropics with X-ray microtomography and 3D cybertaxonomy. Insect Systematics and Diversity 3 (6): 5:1-84. 10.1093/isd/ixz015 PDF
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):127-222. 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
Weber, N. A. 1949b. New ponerine ants from equatorial Africa. American Museum Novitates 1398:1-9. PDF

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