Platythyreini

The tribe Platythyreini belongs to the subfamily Ponerinae. For a list of genera contained within this tribe see Platythyreini genera, for species see Platythyreini species.

Synopsis
Tribe PLATYTHYREINI Platythyrei Emery, 1901a: 36. Type-genus: Platythyrea. Taxonomic history Platythyreini as tribe of Ponerinae: Emery, 1901a: 36 [Platythyrei]; Emery, 1911d: 28; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 36; Arnold, 1915: 22; Forel, 1917: 237; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 638; all subsequent authors. Genus: Platythyrea.

Tribe and genus Platythyrea references Roger, 1863b: 17 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863: 442 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 14 (diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893: 27 (catalogue); Forel, 1900d: 314 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 74 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Emery, 1911d: 28 (diagnosis, catalogue); Arnold, 1915: 22 (diagnosis, South Africa species key); Mann, 1916: 403 (Neotropical species key); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 57, 758, 1007 (diagnosis, Afrotropical & Malagasy catalogues); Clark, 1930c: 9 (Eubothroponera species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 47 (Asia checklist); Brown, 1952k: 1 (diagnosis, genera); Wilson, 1958a: 150 (Melanesia & Moluccas species revision, key); Kempf, 1972a: 206 (Neotropical catalogue); Brown, 1975: 4, 9, 10 (diagnosis & review of genera, Afrotropical species, Malagasy, Malesian, Australian & New World species keys); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1976b: 48 (larvae, review & synthesis); Smith, D.R. 1979: 1336 (North America catalogue); Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 37 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 56 (Australia checklist); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79 (synoptic classification); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10 (synoptic classification); Brandão, 1991: 371 (Neotropical catalogue); Bolton, 1994: 164 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1052 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 336 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 198 (Australia synopsis); Bolton, 2003: 44, 171 (diagnosis, synopsis); Fernández, 2008: 207 (Neotropical species key); Heterick, 2009: 136 (south-western Australia species key).