Type location South Africa (Bolton, 1980: 258, illustrated, holotype worker), Cape, Gwanga Drift, Peddie, collector B. Marais .
Bolton's description (1980) is at .
WORKER - TL 3.3 mm.
The photomontage is of the holotype worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent090117.
href="tetramorium_platynode.htm"