Platythyrea ceylonensis

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

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Platythyrea ceylonensis Donisthorpe, 1941 junior synonym of current valid taxon Platythyrea parallela (Smith, 1859)

Platythyrea ceylonensis Donisthorpe, 1941j: 202 (w.q.) SRI LANKA. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 1 syntype worker, 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): (no further data), “registered no. 67. 25” (Thwaites). Primary type depository: BMNH.

Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 47.
Junior synonym of Platythyrea parallela: Brown, 1975: 9; Bolton, 1995b: 336.

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. 1941j. A new genus and species of Formicidae (Hym.) from Papua. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 77:175. PDF

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