Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia
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Range
Venezuela, Colombia.
Identification
Antennae 8-9 segmented; interantennal lamella swollen, forming a thickened, spindle-shaped knob, not flat and plate-like; anterior clypeal margin broadly emarginate.
Natural History
Discothyrea are extremely small, cryptobiotic inhabitatants of forest leaf litter (see Genus Overview).
I know this species from two lowland sites in the Venezuelan Andes and from a lowland site (Tayrona National Park) near the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. All are from Winkler samples of sifted leaf litter.
Page author:
John T. Longino, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA.longinoj@evergreen.edu
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