Published November 16, 2012 | Version v1
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Discothyrea testacea Roger 1863

  • 1. Department of Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA & Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan
  • 2. Department of Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
  • 3. Department of Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA & Department of Entomology & Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville FL, USA

Description

Discothyrea testacea Roger, 1863

Distribution in North Carolina: Central and eastern parts of the state. Counties: BL, CK, CU, RB, WK, WY (material examined) and CR, CT, DP, DU, HO, IR, LN, ME, MO, NH, ON, OR (in literature).

Distribution in surrounding states: GA (Smith 1955b) and SC (Guénard and Lucky 2011).

Proceratium crassicorne Emery, 1895 * (rarely collected species)

Distribution in North Carolina: Northern part of the state. Counties: CK, MT and OR (material examined).

Distribution in surrounding states: GA (MacGown 2012b), TN (Baroni Urbani and De Andrade 2003) and VA (Baroni Urbani and De Andrade 2003).

Proceratium croceum (Roger, 1860) (rarely collected species)

Distribution in North Carolina: Piedmont Plateau. Counties: HA, MO, WK (material examined) and DU (in literature).

Distribution in surrounding states: GA (Baroni Urbani and De Andrade 2003, Ipser et al. 2004), SC (Baroni Urbani and De Andrade 2003), TN (Baroni Urbani and De Andrade 2003, Lessard et al. 2007) and VA (Baroni Urbani and De Andrade 2003).

Notes

Published as part of Guénard, Benoit, Mccaffrey, Katherine A., Lucky, Andrea & Dunn, Rob R., 2012, Ants of North Carolina: an updated list (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3552 on page 30

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Formicidae
Genus
Discothyrea
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Roger
Species
testacea
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Discothyrea testacea Roger, 1863 sec. Guénard, Mccaffrey, Lucky & Dunn, 2012

References

  • Smith, M. R. (1955 b) Remarks concerning the types of five species of ants described by Roger or Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 50, 98 - 99.
  • Guenard, B. & Lucky, A. (2011) Shuffling leaf litter samples produces more accurate and precise snapshots of terrestrial arthropod community composition. Environmental Entomology 40, 1523 - 1529.
  • Baroni Urbani, C. & De Andrade, M. L. (2003) The ant genus Proceratium in the extant and fossil record (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Monografie, 36, 1 - 480.
  • Ipser, R. M., Brinkman, M. A., Gardner, W. A. & Peeler, H. B. (2004) A survey of ground-dwelling ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Georgia. Florida Entomologist, 87, 253 - 260.
  • Lessard, J. P., Dunn, R. R., Parker, C. R. & Sanders, N. J. (2007) Rarity and diversity in forest ant assemblages of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Southeastern Naturalist, 1, 215 - 218.