Platythyrea brunnipes

Identification Keys including this Taxon

 * Key to Australian Platythyrea Species

Distribution
Heterick (2009) - Found in the wetter south- west of WA, as well as SA.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Eubothroponera brunnipes Clark, 1938: 361, fig. 3 (w.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia: Reevesby I.).
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Australia: South Australia, Reevesby I. (J. Clark).
 * Type-depository: MVMA.
 * Combination in Platythyrea: Brown, 1975: 8.
 * Status as species: Brown, 1975: 8, 53; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 37; Taylor, 1987a: 56; Bolton, 1995b: 336; Heterick, 2009: 136.
 * Distribution: Australia.

Description
Brown (1975) provided the following: P. brunnipes, inadequately described by Clark from Reevesby Island in the Sir Joseph Banks Group, off the coast of South Australia, is also called "castaneous," a color term that Clark consistently used for tints of a much lighter color than is usually associated with that term by other authors. In fact, ants described as "castaneous" by Clark would usually be called "ferruginous" or "reddish yellow" by other authors. Clark said that the antennae, mandibles, and legs of brunnipes were "brown," but his description of the sculpture and pilosity is so sketchy that we cannot say whether the species is related to dentinodis or to turneri; maybe it is to neither.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Brown W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search Agric. (Ithaca N. Y.) 5(1): 1-115.
 * Taylor R. W. 1987. 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.