Platythyrea nicobarensis

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India.

Nomenclature

 * . Platythyrea nicobarensis Forel, 1905b: 165 (w.) INDIA (Nicobar Is).
 * Type-material: holotype worker.
 * Type-locality: India: Nicobar Is, Nancovri, Galathea Expd.
 * Type-depository: ZMUC.
 * Status as species: Emery, 1911d: 29; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 48; Brown, 1975: 8, 49; Bolton, 1995b: 336; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 53.
 * Distribution: India (Nicobar Is).

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.
 * Dubey A.K. 2006. Notes on the Indian species of the genus Platythyrea (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with an identification key. Entomon 31: 45-48.
 * Emery C. 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125.
 * Forel A. 1905. Miscellanea myrmécologiques II (1905). Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 49: 155-185.
 * Kishimoto-Yamata K., F. Hyodo, M. Matsuoka, Y. Hashimoto, M. Kon, T. Ochi, S. Yamane, R. Ishii, and T. Itioka. 2012. Effects of remnant primary forests on ant and dung beetle species diversity in a secondary forest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Journal of Insect Conservation DOI 10.1007/s10841-012-9544-6