Platythyrea dentinodis

The very rare Platythyrea dentinodis was described from Tammin, in the western wheatbelt, and has recently been collected by a Curtin researcher near Worsley in the lower Darling Range. Even more surprisingly, since this work has been submitted for publication, P. dentinodis has been collected by a Curtin student in the coastal Perth suburb of Cottesloe, in relictual bushland. (Heterick 2009)

Identification Keys including this Taxon

 * Key to Australian Platythyrea Species

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Eubothroponera dentinodis Clark, 1930c: 9, fig. 1 (nos. 6, 6a) (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia).
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Australia: Western Australia, Bungulla (J. Clark).
 * Type-depositories: MCZC, 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: This species, still known only from the type series from Bungulla, Western Australia, is a unicolorous, yellowish red, or ferruginous yellow, described by Clark as "castaneous." The sculpture is rather loose and coarse and generally fairly strongly shining, and the middle of the posterodorsal petiolar margin bears a small but sharp and uptilted tooth. The standing hairs are dark, coarse and long, up to 0.18 mm long on some dorsal surfaces. The antennae, mandibles, and legs are no darker in color than the rest of the body.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * 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.