Platythyrea gracillima

Platythyrea gracillima Wheeler, 1922 valid

Platythyrea gracillima Wheeler, 1922: 59, fig. 5 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Avakubi, from stomach of a toad (Bufo regularis) (H.O. Lang). Primary type depository: AMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0003149.

[Misspelled as gracilliens by Santschi, 1937g: 73.]
Status as species: Santschi, 1937g: 73; Brown, 1975: 8, 52; Bolton, 1995b: 336; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 221.

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
Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF
Santschi, F. 1937g. Fourmis du Congo et régions limitrophes. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 30:71-85. 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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