Platythyrea arnoldi Forel
  Type location Zimbabwe (Platythyrea Arnoldi n. sp., Forel,
1913j: 206, worker; Arnold, 1926: 197, queen & male) Shiloh, G
Arnold - see below
junior
synonym apicalis (Platythyrea lamellosa, Rog. stirps apicalis n. st., Santschi, 1937g:
71, illustrated, worker) from Zaïre, Nyangwe, viii. 1932, L
Lebrun - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?name=rmcaent000017721
all forms described (see
Bolton, 1995)  .
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 Forel's (1913j) description is at  . Arnold (1915) gave a translation; this is
at  . Arnold's (1926) description of the queen
and male is at  . Santschi's (1937g)
description of apicalis is at  .
Brown (1975: 47) described it as close to lamellosa
but differing in the alitrunk profile being continuous and with the
dorsal surface of the petiole node rising gradually to the posterior
border, then dropping suddenly in to the posterior face which it
overhangs; in lamellosa the convex dorsum of the petiole node
rounds into the posterior face. He noted the similarity in descriptions
of arnoldi and lamellosa apicalis, which he
synonymised, and that viehmeyer could be the same as arnoldi.
Brown (1975) describes it as ground-dwelling foraging on
the ground or on trees and shrubs; observed by Arnold (1915) in
Zimbabwe as feeding entirely on adult beetles, especially Tenebrionidae.
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The photomontage of the type worker is collated from 
The photomontage of a
specimen from Zimbabwe is collated from 
The photomontage of a
male collected with the above worker from Zimbabwe is collated from