• Platythyrea in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1865: 14 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 27.
• Platythyrea in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Forel, 1899b: 3; Forel, 1900f: 314; Wheeler, 1910a: 135.
• Platythyrea in Pachycondylinae, Ectatommini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Platythyrea in Ponerinae, Platythyreini: Emery, 1911e: 28; Wheeler, 1915i: 36; Arnold, 1915: 22; Forel, 1917: 237; Wheeler, 1922: 641; all subsequent authors.

Junior synonyms

• Eubothroponera Clark, 1930

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