• Combination in Discothyrea: Brown, 1958g: 253
• Status as species: Brown, 1958g: 253; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 29; Taylor, 1987a: 24; Bolton, 1995b: 172.

Obsolete combinations

• Prodiscothyrea velutina

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
• 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.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1916m. Prodiscothyrea, a new genus of ponerine ants from Queensland. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 40:33-37. PDF