Discothyrea kamiteta Kubota & Terayama, 1999

Liu, Cong, Guenard, Benoit, Garcia, Francisco Hita, Yamane, Seiki, Blanchard, Benjamin, Yang, Da-Rong & Economo, Evan, 2015, New records of ant species from Yunnan, China, ZooKeys 477, pp. 17-78 : 25-27

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Formicidae

Discothyrea kamiteta Kubota & Terayama, 1999 Figure 9

Material examined.

CHINA, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna: Kilometer 55 station (21.963° N, 101.201° E), Rain forest, 13.vi.2013, 1 worker, 815m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu ; XTBG (21.911° N, 101.283° E), Limestone forest, 06.vi.2013, 1 worker, 675m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu ; XTBG (21.917° N, 101.274° E), Secondary forest, 08.vi.2013, 1 worker, 625m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu ; Man Sai village (21.858° N, 101.276° E), Secondary forest, 12.vi.2013, 1 worker, 690m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu .

Distribution.

Yunnan (new record), Hunan, Okinawa (Figure 9 C). This new record represents an important western-most extension in the known distribution of this species.

Taxonomic note.

Discothyrea kamiteta is very similar to the recently described Discothyrea banna Xu, Burwell & Nakamura, 2014. Both species seem to be very close morphologically, and their separation is based on minor differences, which could also be attributed to intraspecific variation. The identification is based on the original description of Discothyrea kamiteta , comparison with Discothyrea kamiteta material from the type locality (Okinawa), and Xu’s key (Xu et al. 2014)

Natural history.

Discothyrea kamiteta has been collected from leaf litter in various habitats, such as primary forest, limestone forest and secondary forest.