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Platythyrea Roger, 1863 valid feminine
Platythyrea Roger, 1863a: 172 Type-species: Platythyrea punctata, by subsequent designation of Bingham, 1903: 73.
Type notes: The same type-species was unnecessarily proposed by Emery, 1911e: 29.
Junior synonyms
Genus Platythyrea catalogues

Mayr, 1863a: 442; Roger, 1863b: 17; Dalla Torre, 1893: 27; Emery, 1911e: 28; Wheeler, 1922: 758, 1007 (Afrotropical & Malagasy); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 47 (Asia); Smith, 1951c: 783 (North America); Kempf, 1972b: 206 (Neotropical); Smith, 1979: 1336 (North America); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 37 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 56 (Australia); Brandão, 1991: 371 (Neotropical); Bolton, 1995b: 336; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 51 (species checklist); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 376 (Afrotropical, Malagasy checklist).

Genus Platythyrea references

Mayr, 1865: 14 (diagnosis); Forel, 1900f: 314 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 74 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Emery, 1911e: 28 (diagnosis); Arnold, 1915: 22 (diagnosis, South Africa species key); Mann, 1916: 403 (Neotropical species key); Wheeler, 1922: 57 (diagnosis); Clark, 1930c: 9 (Eubothroponera species key); Brown, 1952g: 1 (diagnosis, genera); Wilson, 1958c: 150 (Melanesia & Moluccas species revision, key); Bolton, 1973a: 331 (diagnosis); Brown, 1975: 6 (diagnosis, all species revision), 9 (Africa species key), 10 (Madagascar species key, Indo-Australia species key, New World species key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b: 48 (larvae, review & synthesis); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79 (synoptic classification); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1994: 164 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1052 (census); Dlussky, 1997a: 51 (in Baltic amber genera key); Shattuck, 1999: 198 (Australia synopsis); Bolton, 2003: 44, 171 (diagnosis, synopsis); De Andrade, 2004: 650 (neotropical species key); Fernández, 2008a: 207 (Neotropical species key); Heterick, 2009: 136 (south-western Australia species key); Eguchi et al., 2014: 39 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 48 (diagnosis, synoptic description, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations); Baccaro et al., 2015: 312 (genus in Brazil); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 376 (diagnosis); Cantone, 2017: 270 (brief male diagnosis); Phengsi et al., 2018: 98 (SE Asia species key); Fernández & Guerrero, 2019: 512 (Colombia species key); Heterick, 2021: 210 (Western Australia species key); Jaitrong et al., 2022: 153 (Platythyrea clypeata species group diagnosis), 163 (Oriental species key (workers)); Ramamonjisoa et al., 2024: 353 (Malagasy region male diagnosis).

Citations

Extant: 40 valid species (21 synonyms, 4 obsolete combinations), 0 valid subspecies (23 synonyms, 1 homonym, 2 obsolete combinations)

Fossil: 6 valid species (1 unavailable misspelling)

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