Platythyrea cooperi

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Platythyrea cooperi Arnold, 1915 valid

Platythyrea cooperi Arnold, 1915: 29 (w.m.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: South Africa: Durban, Stella Bush (C.B. Cooper). Primary type depositories: BMNH, DMKN, NHMB, SAMC. Primary type specimen: CASENT0900574. Type notes: Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 127, cites 2 worker syntypes in NHMB.

Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 758; Brown, 1975: 8; Bolton, 1995b: 336.

Citations

Arnold, G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:1-159. PDF
Baroni Urbani, C. 1973b. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel. Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)23:122-152.
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
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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