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

 * . Eubothroponera micans Clark, 1930c: 10, fig. 1 (nos. 7,7a) (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia).
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “two small colonies”).
 * Type-locality: Australia: Western Australia, Mundaring (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. 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.

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.