Platythyrea modesta Emery

Type location Cameroun (Platythyrea modesta n. sp., Emery, 1899e: 467, worker) collected at Mundame by Conradt - see below
worker and larval instar described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Emery's (1899e) description is at . Included here as a possible finding.

The photomontage of a lectotype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0907108.

Brown (1975: 45) found specimens to be generally somewhat larger than the specimen he chose as a cotype (syntype) , TL 7.5, HL 1.38, HW 1.14, SL 1.07, from the collection made by Conradt in Cameroun, 1895. He saw specimens from Kenya, Sudan, Uganda, Zaïre; Gabon and Ghana.

Collingwood (1985, illustrated), recording it from Saudi Arabia, noted that it is an active predator with a relatively sharp sting; and was collected from an exposed rock in bright sunshine.

Nigeria specimens (Taylor, 1976: 9). WORKER. TL 6.6 mm, HL 1.34, HW 1.15, SL 1.03 and PW 0.95.
Colour generally black, shiny with grey pubescence, extremities, red-brown. Eye ovoid with flattened anterior edge. Posterior edge of propodeum with a pair of small teeth. Posterior edge of petiole with paired lateral teeth and a single central dorsal tooth.
An uncommon, arboreal species which I recorded twice on cocoa at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigera, Idi Ayunre.