The Ants of Africa
Genus Discothyrea
Discothyrea poweri (Arnold)
{Discothyrea poweri}

Discothyrea poweri (Arnold)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location South Africa (as Pseudosysphincta poweri, from Kimberley, by Power, in Arnold, 1916: 162, illustrated, worker); worker only described (see Bolton, 1995, who has type location wrongly given as Zimbabwe) .

Arnold's (1916) description is at {original description}.


{Discothyrea poweri}The photomontage is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=sam-ent-0011509
Collection Information: Specimen Code SAM-ENT-0011509; Locality South Africa: Cape Province: Kimberley; 28°44'00"S 024°46'00"E; Collection codes: SAM-ENT-0011509 Date: 31 Dec 1912

Also see http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=sam-hym-c007942 and what may to be the undescribed queen at http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=sam-hym-c000124&shot=p1&project= although the eyes appear to be too large and the ocelli too prominent.

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