• Status as species: Imai et al., 2003: 217; Xu et al., 2014a: 35 (in key); Bharti et al., 2015: 123 (in key); Liu et al., 2015: 33.

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
• Imai, H. T.; Kihara, A.; Kondoh, M.; Kubota, M.; Kuribayashi, S.; Ogata, K.; Onoyama, K.; Taylor, R. W.; Terayama, M.; Tsukii, Y.; Yoshimura, M.; Ugawa, Y. 2003. Ants of Japan. Tokyo: Gakken, 224 pp. PDF
• Kubota, M.; Terayama, M. 1999. A description of a new species of the genus Discothyrea Roger from the Ryukyus, Japan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Myrmecological Society of Japan 1:1-5. PDF
• Liu, C.; Guénard, B.; Hita Garcia, F.; Yamane, S.; Blanchard, B.; Yang, D.-R.; Economo, E. 2015. New records of ant species from Yunnan, China. ZooKeys 477:17-78. 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