Discothyrea bidens

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Discothyrea bidens Clark, 1928 valid

Discothyrea bidens Clark, 1928a: 38, pl. 1, figs. 30, 31 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Victoria, Warburton (F.E. Wilson). Primary type depositories: MCZC, MVMA. Type notes: Brown, 1958g: 340, records that in conversation, F.E. Wilson told him that the actual type locality of Discothyrea bidens was Cement Creek, “some miles up into the Warburton Range, away from the town of Warburton”.

Status as species: Smith & Wing, 1955: 108; Brown, 1958g: 253, 339; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 29; Taylor, 1987a: 24; Bolton, 1995b: 171.

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
Clark, J. 1928a. Australian Formicidae. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 14:29-41. 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
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.

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