Platythyrea

GENUS

1. KingdomAnimalia
2. PhylumArthropoda
3. ClassInsecta
4. OrderHymenoptera
5. FamilyFormicidae

Observations recorded5,007

Worker.-Small or medium-sized, slender, monomorphic, opaque black ants, with pruinose surface and very poorly developed pilosity, with flat clypeus often without a posterior suture, indistinct frontal area and large, thick, expanded and widely separated frontal carinae. Mandibles large, triangular, with edentate or finely denticulate apical border. Maxillary palpi 6-jointed, labial palpi 4-jointed. Antennae stout, funiculi without a distinct club. Eyes rather large; ocelli absent. Premesonotal suture distinct, other thoracic sutures feeble or obsolete. Petiole massive, not squamiform, its posterior articulation at the middle of the anterior surface of the petiole. The constriction between the latter and the gaster moderately pronounced. Middle and hind tibiae with two spurs; claws with a single tooth. Female winged, very similar to the worker and but little larger; eyes larger, but ocelli not always developed. Pronotum large; mesonotum depressed. Wings with two closed cubital cells, a discoidal cell and a closed radial cell as in many other Ponerinae. Male more like the female than in most genera of the subfamily; clypeus more convex than in the worker and female; frontal carinae n

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