Discothyrea oculata Emery

Type location Cameroun (Discothyrea oculata n. sp., Emery, 1901a: 52, all forms) L. Conradt - see below
All forms described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Emery's (1901a) description is at .

Wheeler (1922) also listed it from Guinea (Mamou, by F. Silvestri) and Congo.

Bernard (1952) described it as probably common in small termite nests throughout French West Africa. The species lodges in minute societies in cavities in the walls of Procubitermes and other termites. Lamotte found 9 workers in the savanna at Kéoulenta, Guinea.

A single worker was collected in Ghana, from leaf litter in the semi-deciduous forest zone - under secondary forest at Bunso - by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0903856.

The photomontage is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=sam-hym-005413. This is some 80% smaller than the type. The geographicla separation obviously is vast.