Platythyrea bicolor

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Platythyrea bicolor (Clark, 1930) junior synonym of current valid taxon Platythyrea turneri Forel, 1895

Eubothroponera bicolor Clark, 1930c: 11, fig. 1 (nos. 8,8a) (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “several specimens”). Type-locality: Australia: Western Australia, Ludlow (J. Clark). Type-depositories: MCZC, MVMA.

Junior synonym of Platythyrea turneri: Brown, 1975: 9; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 38; Taylor, 1987a: 56; Bolton, 1995b: 336.

Obsolete combinations

Eubothroponera bicolor

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
Clark, J. 1930c. New Formicidae, with notes on some little-known species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.)43:2-25. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.

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