Platythyrea micans

Workers have been collected from pitfall traps and hand collections from the ground and tree trunks in Jarrah-Marri woodland south and south-east of Perth. (Heterick 2009)

Identification Keys including this Taxon

 * Key to Australian Platythyrea Species

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 *  micans. Eubothroponera micans Clark, 1930c: 10, fig. 1 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in Platythyrea: Brown, 1975: 8.

Description
Brown (1975) provided the following: P. micans is a relatively delicately sculptured form, rather generally weakly shining and with very short standing pilosity and tidy appressed pubescence, evenly dark brown in color throughout, from Western Australia. I have an additional specimen taken by E. O. Wilson and C. P. Haskins on the Mt. Ragged Thomas River Track, sandplain east of Esperance, Western Australia, in mallee, 1955.