Platythyrea scalpra Lattke 2003

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Alternative combination: Platythyrea scalprum

Full reference: J. E. Lattke. 2003. The genus Platythyrea Roger, 1863 in Dominican Amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Entomotropica 18(2):107-111

Belongs to Platythyrea according to C. A. Schmidt and S. O. Shattuck 2014

See also Bolton 2012 and Lattke 2003

Sister taxa: Platythyrea dentata, Platythyrea dlusskyi, Platythyrea parallela, Platythyrea primaeva, Platythyrea procera, Platythyrea pumilio

Type specimen: AMNH DR-14-35, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (AMNH coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (AMNH coll)

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