• Xu & Zeng, 2000: 214 (w.); Jaitrong et al., 2022: 155 (w.)
• Status as species: Brown, 1975: 8, 50; Bolton, 1995b: 336; Xu & Zeng, 2000: 214 (redescription); Zhou & Ran, 2010: 109; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 61; Phengsi et al., 2018: 92 (redescription); Dias et al., 2020: 116; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 153; Jaitrong et al., 2022: 154 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Platythyrea thwaitesi: Brown, 1975: 8; Bolton, 1995b: 336; Phengsi et al., 2018: 92; Jaitrong et al., 2022: 154.

Junior synonyms

• Platythyrea thwaitesi Donisthorpe, 1931

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Xu, Z.-H.; Zeng, G. 2000. Discovery of the worker caste of Platythyrea clypeata Forel and a new species of Probolomyrmex Mayr in Yunnan, China (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologia Sinica 7:213-217. PDF
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