• Ogata, 1987a: 109 (m.)
• Subspecies of Discothyrea globa: Wheeler, 1929h: 58; Teranishi, 1940: 56; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 77; Smith & Wing, 1955: 108.
• Status as species: Brown, 1958g: 253; Morisita et al., 1989: 16; Bolton, 1995b: 171; Imai et al., 2003: 217; Lin & Wu, 2003: 67; Terayama, 2009: 97; Zhou & Ran, 2010: 110; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 62; Xu et al., 2014a: 35 (in key); Bharti et al., 2015: 124 (in key); Wang et al., 2022: 135.

Obsolete combinations

• Discothyrea globa sauteri

Citations

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• Wang, W. Y.; Soh, E. J. Y.; Yong, G. W. J.; Wong, M. K. L.; Guénard, B.; Economo, E. P.; Yamane, S. 2022. Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy. Asian Myrmecology 15: e015006:1-152. [online early] 10.20362/am.015006 PDF
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