Primary type information:
Primary type material: 1 syntype worker, 1 syntype male. Primary type locality: Dominican Republic: St. Domingo (no further data). Primary type depository: unknown (not in
BMNH (presumed lost)).
Type notes:
1) The syntypes could not be found in
BMNH. 2) A queen of this species in
BMNH, labelled as type of
Platythyrea punctata, is correctly identified but has an incorrect label “
P. pilosula Sm.”, and a white, rectangular label “Type. F. Smith coll. 79.22.” The original description of
Platythyrea punctata did not mention a queen, and the date, (18)79, is far too late (it probably indicates a Farren-White donation date) (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978).