Platythyrea occidentalis

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

Nomenclature

 * . Platythyrea occidentalis André, 1890: 315 (q.) SIERRA LEONE.
 * Type-material: holotype queen.
 * Type-locality: Sierra Leone: (no further data).
 * Type-depository: MNHN.
 * André, 1895a: 3 (m.); Arnold, 1954: 291 (w.).
 * Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 27; André, 1895a: 3; Emery, 1911d: 29; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 760; Arnold, 1954: 291; Brown, 1975: 8, 46; Bolton, 1995b: 336.
 * Distribution: Ghana, Sierra Leone, Uganda.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * André E. 1890. Matériaux pour servir à la faune myrmécologique de Sierra-Leone (Afrique occidentale). Rev. Entomol. (Caen) 9: 311-327.
 * André E. 1895. Formicides de l'Ogooué (Congo français). Rev. Entomol. (Caen) 14: 1-5.
 * Arnold G. 1954. New Formicidae from Kenya and Uganda. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge. Nouvelle Série in Quarto. Sciences Zoologiques. 1: 291-295.
 * Emery C. 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125.
 * IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection
 * Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VIII. A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 711-1004