Platythyrea frontalis

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Platythyrea frontalis Emery, 1899 valid

Platythyrea frontalis Emery, 1899d: 466 (w.q.) CAMEROON. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Brown, 1975: 46). Primary type locality: Cameroon: (no further data), 1895 (Conradt). Primary type depositories: MHNG (lectotype); MHNG, MSNG (other original syntypes). Primary type specimens: CASENT0907103 (lectotype), CASENT0903796. Type notes: Original type-series contained syntype workers (number not stated), plus 1(?) syntype queen.

Lectotype designation: Brown, 1975: 46.
Status as species: Emery, 1911e: 29; Wheeler, 1922: 759; Santschi, 1933b: 95; Brown, 1975: 8, 46; Bolton, 1995b: 336.

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
Emery, C. 1899d. Fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 43:459-504. PDF
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Santschi, F. 1933b. Contribution à l'étude des fourmis de l'Afrique tropicale. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 73:95-108. 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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