• Status as species: Leston, 1971: 117; Bolton, 1995b: 171; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 222; Hita-Garcia & Lieberman, 2019: 18 (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.; 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
• Hita-Garcia, F.; Lieberman, Z. 2019. [New species Discothyrea aisnetu, D. athene, D. chimera, D. damato, D. dryad, D. gaia, D. gryphon, D. hawkesi, D. kalypso, D. maia, D. michelae, D. penthos, D. schulzei, D. venus, and D. wakanda attributed to Hita-Garcia & Lieberman]. Pp. 29, 31, 34, 37, 40, 43, 45, 48, 51, 55, 56, 59, 62, 67, 75, 78 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. PDF
• Leston, D. 1971. The Ectatommini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Ghana. Journal of Entomology. Series B 40:117-120. PDF