Taxonomic history
Ogata, 1987a PDF: 109 (m.).Subspecies of Discothyrea globa: Wheeler, 1929h PDF: 58; Teranishi, 1940: 56; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 77; Smith & Wing, 1955 PDF: 108.Status as species: Brown, 1958g PDF: 253; Morisita et al., 1989: 16; Bolton, 1995b: 171; Imai et al., 2003 PDF: 217; Lin & Wu, 2003: 67; Terayama, 2009 PDF: 97; Zhou & Ran, 2010: 110; Guénard & Dunn, 2012 PDF: 62; Xu et al., 2014a PDF: 35 (in key); Bharti et al., 2015 PDF: 124 (in key).