Tribe Platythyreini Emery 1901 (ant)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Parent taxon: Ponerinae according to J. T. Oberski et al. 2025
See also Bolton 2003, Bolton 2012, Schmidt and Shattuck 2014 and Wheeler 1915
Sister taxa: Afropone, Cephalopone, Cyrtopone, Eogorgites, Eoponerites, Furcisutura, Longicapitia, Messelepone, Ponerini, Poneropsis pallida, Protopone, Taphopone
Subtaxa: Platythyrea
Type: Platythyrea
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Colombia (2 collections), Indonesia (1)
• Miocene of China (1), the Dominican Republic (2)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of France (1), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 10 collections including 12 occurrences