Platythyrea mocquerysi

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Comoros. Malagasy Region: Madagascar, Mayotte.

Nomenclature

 * . Platythyrea mocquerysi Emery, 1899f: 270 (w.q.) MADAGASCAR.
 * Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of Brown, 1975: 46).
 * [Note: original type-series consisted of syntype workers (number not stated), and 1 syntype queen.]
 * Type-locality: Madagascar: Antongil Bay (A. Mocquerys).
 * Type-depositories: MHNG (lectotype); MHNG, MSNG (other original syntypes).
 * Status as species: Emery, 1911d: 29; Arnold, 1915: 32; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 760, 1007; Arnold, 1926: 196; Brown, 1975: 8, 46; Bolton, 1995b: 336.
 * Senior synonym of debilior: Brown, 1975: 8; Bolton, 1995b: 337.
 * Distribution: Madagascar.
 * debilior. Platythyrea mocquerysi var. debilior Forel, 1907g: 76 (w.) MADAGASCAR.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-localities: Madagascar: Tulear (A. Voeltzkow), and N Mahafaly (A. Voeltzkow).
 * Type-depository: MHNG.
 * Subspecies of mocquerysi: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 1007.
 * Junior synonym of mocquerysi: Brown, 1975: 8; Bolton, 1995b: 336.

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. 1997. Biogeography and ecology of the ant fauna of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 31: 269-302.
 * Fisher B. L. 2003. Formicidae, ants. Pp. 811-819 in: Goodman, S. M.; Benstead, J. P. (eds.) 2003. The natural history of Madagascar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, xxi + 1709 pp.
 * Forel A. 1907. Ameisen von Madagaskar, den Comoren und Ostafrika. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. Reise in Ostafrika 2: 75-92.
 * Ravelomanana A., and B. L. Fisher. 2013. Diversity of ants in burned and unburned grassland, and dry deciduous forest in the Beanka Reserve, Melaky Region, western Madagascar. Malagasy Nature 7: 171-183.
 * Ward P. S. 2007. The ant genus Leptanilloides: discovery of the male and evaluation of phylogenetic relationships based on DNA sequence data. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80: 637-649.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. IX. A synonymic list of the ants of the Malagasy region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 1005-1055