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Discothyrea gigas

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Discothyrea gigas was named by de Andrade (1998). Its type specimen is Poinar H-10-178-A, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Discothyrea gigas de Andrade p. 205 figs. 1-3,5,6
2012Discothyrea gigas Bolton

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
subfamilyProceratiinaeEmery 1895
tribeProceratiini(Emery 1885)
genusDiscothyreaRoger 1863
speciesgigas

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Discothyrea gigas de Andrade 1998
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available