Discothyrea oculata Emery

Type location Cameroun (L. Conradt, in Emery, 1901a: 52, all forms); all forms described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Emery's (1901a) description is at .

Wheeler (1922) also listed it from Guinea (Mamou, by F. Silvestri) and Congo.

Bernard (1952) described it as probably common in small termite nests throughout French West Africa. The species lodges in minute societies in cavities in the walls of Procubitermes and other termites. Lamotte found 9 workers in the savanna at Kéoulenta, Guinea.

A single worker was collected in Ghana, from leaf litter in the semi-deciduous forest zone - under secondary forest at Bunso - by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).

The photomontage is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=sam-hym-005413
Locality: South Africa: Natal: Ukilinga Research Farm, 10km SE of Pietermaritzburg; 29°40'00"S 030°24'00"E 840m
Collection Information: Collection codes: SAM-HYM-C005413 Date: 31 Dec 1991
Collected by: B.Chambers
Method: pitfall trapping Habitat: grassland