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Platystruma
| Platystruma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Platystruma Brown, 1953 |
| Type species | |
| Strumigenys (Cephaloxys) depressiceps, now Strumigenys depressiceps
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Strumigenys.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- PLATYSTRUMA [junior synonym of Strumigenys]
- Platystruma Brown, 1953g: 112 [as subgenus of Smithistruma]. Type-species: Strumigenys (Cephaloxys) depressiceps, by original designation.
- Platystruma junior synonym of Smithistruma: Brown, 1973a: 35.
- Platystruma junior synonym of Pyramica: Bolton, 1999: 1668; Bolton, 2000: 91.
References
- Bolton, B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Nat. Hist. 3 33: 1639-1689 (page 1668, Platystruma as junior synonym of Pyramica)
- Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 65: 1-1028 (page 91, Platystruma as junior synonym of Pyramica)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 190, Platystruma as junior synonym of Pyramica)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953g. Revisionary studies in the ant tribe Dacetini. Am. Midl. Nat. 50: 1-137 (page 112, Platystruma as subgenus of Smithistruma; Platystruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1973a. A new species of Miccostruma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from West Africa, with notes on the genus. J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 46: 32-35 (page 35, Platystruma as junior synonym of Smithistruma)