• Junior synonym of Platythyrea parallela: Wilson, 1958c: 151; Brown, 1975: 9; Bolton, 1995b: 336.
• [Note: current combination of Ectomomyrmex melancholicus itself is in Ectomomyrmex (Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 193).]

Citations

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