• Combination in Discothyrea: Brown, 1958g: 253
• Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 77; Brown, 1958g: 253; Bolton, 1995b: 171; Xu et al., 2014a: 34 (in key); Bharti et al., 2015: 123 (in key); Wang et al., 2022: 135.

Obsolete combinations

• Prodiscothyrea bryanti

Citations

• Bharti, H.; Akbar, S. A.; Singh, J. 2015. Discothyrea periyarensis sp. n., a new proceratiine ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Proceratiinae) from India. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (1):121-124. PDF
• 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
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• 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
• Wheeler, W. M. 1917d. A new Malayan ant of the genus Prodiscothyrea. Psyche (Cambridge) 24:29-30. PDF
• Xu, Z.-H.; Burwell, C. J.; Nakamura, A. 2014a. Two new species of the proceratiine ant genus Discothyrea Roger from Yunnan, China, with a key to the known Oriental species. Asian Myrmecology 6:33-41. PDF