Discothyrea poweri (Arnold)

Type location South Africa (as Pseudosysphincta poweri, from Kimberley, by Power, in Arnold, 1916: 162, illustrated, worker) - see below

Worker only described (see Bolton, 1995, who has type location wrongly given as Zimbabwe) .

Arnold's (1916) description is at .

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=sam-ent-0011509.

With 11-segmented antennae; head in full face view near rectangular, eyes relatively small; quite slender, gaster parallel-sided

Also see http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=sam-hym-c007942.

The photomontage of what may to be the undescribed queen is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=sam-hym-c000124& although the eyes appear to be too large and the ocelli too prominent.

Locality: South Africa: Eastern Cape: Hogsback, Cape Province; 32°36'00"S 026°56'00"E 1200 m
Collection codes: SAM-HYM-C000124 
Collected by: H.G.Robertson 
Habitat: forest: indigenous evergreen
Date: 26 Mar 1976 
Method: Berlese funnel litter sample