Taxonomic history
Status as species: Santschi, 1910c PDF: 351; Emery, 1911e PDF: 52; Santschi, 1914d PDF: 312; Wheeler, 1922: 761; Arnold, 1926 PDF: 197; Bernard, 1953b PDF: 186; Smith & Wing, 1955 PDF: 107; Brown, 1958g PDF: 253, 340; Leston, 1971 PDF: 117; Bolton, 1995b: 171; Hita Garcia et al., 2019 10.1093/isd/ixz015 PDF: 24 (redescription).Senior synonym of Discothyrea sculptior: Hita Garcia et al., 2019 10.1093/isd/ixz015 PDF: 24.