The Ants of Africa
Genus Discothyrea
Discothyrea mixta Brown

Discothyrea mixta Brown

return to key Type location Liberia (Brown, 1958g: 343, illustrated, worker) Bolahun, J C Bequaert - see below
All forms described (see Bolton, 1995) .

{Discothyrea mixta}Brown's (1958g) description is at {original description}.

Distinguished by the 11-segmented antenna. May be confined to Ghana westwards.

Single workers were collected in Ghana, from leaf litter in the semi-deciduous forest zone - under cocoa at Nankasi, and under primary forest at Bobiri, by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).

{Discothyrea mixta}The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0911150

{Discothyrea mixta}The photomontage of a worker from Ghana is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0249257

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