Platythyrea gracillima

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda.

Nomenclature

 * . Platythyrea gracillima Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 59, fig. 5 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.
 * Type-material: holotype worker.
 * Type-locality: Democratic Republic of Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Avakubi, from stomach of a toad (Bufo regularis) (Lang & Chapin).
 * Type-depository: AMNH.
 * [Misspelled as gracilliens by Santschi, 1937g: 73.]
 * Status as species: Santschi, 1937g: 73; Brown, 1975: 8, 52; Bolton, 1995b: 336; Hita Garcia, et al. 2013: 221.
 * Distribution: Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya.

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.
 * Fisher B. L. 2004. Diversity patterns of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) along an elevational gradient on Monts Doudou in southwestern Gabon. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 28: 269-286.
 * Ross S. R. P. J., F. Hita Garcia, G. Fischer, and M. K. Peters. 2018. Selective logging intensity in an East African rain forest predicts reductions in ant diversity. Biotropica 1-11.