Platythyrea thwaitesi

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Platythyrea thwaitesi Donisthorpe, 1931 junior synonym of current valid taxon Platythyrea clypeata Forel, 1911

Platythyrea thwaitesi Donisthorpe, 1931d: 496 (aq.) SRI LANKA. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype alate queen. Primary type locality: Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): (no further data) (Thwaites). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0900568.

Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 49.
Junior synonym of Platythyrea clypeata: Brown, 1975: 8; Bolton, 1995b: 337; Phengsi et al., 2018: 92; Jaitrong et al., 2022: 154.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5(1):1-115. PDF
Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1931d. Descriptions of some new species of ants. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)8:494-501. PDF
Jaitrong, W.; Xu, Z.; Kachonpisitsak, S. 2022. A new species of the ant Platythyrea clypeata species group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ponerinae) from continental Asia. ZooKeys 1115:151–168. 10.3897/zookeys.1115.86477 PDF
Phengsi, N.; Jaitrong, W.; Ruangsittichai, J.; Khachonpisitsak, S. 2018. A sibling species of Platythyrea clypeata Forel, 1911 in southeast Asia (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ponerinae). ZooKeys 729:87-102. 10.3897/zookeys.729.21378 PDF

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