Discothyrea turtoni

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Discothyrea turtoni Clark, 1934 valid

Discothyrea turtoni Clark, 1934c: 53, pl. 4, figs. 5, 6 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated, “two very small nests”). Primary type locality: Australia: Victoria, Otway Ranges, Beech Forest, (“Turton’s Track, nr Mt Sabine (1812 ft)”), i.1932 (J. Clark). Primary type depository: MVMA.

Status as species: Smith & Wing, 1955: 108; Brown, 1958g: 253, 339; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 29; Taylor, 1987a: 24; Bolton, 1995b: 172; Heterick, 2009: 143.

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. 1934c. Ants from the Otway Ranges. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 8:48-73. PDF
Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. 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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