Platylus dilatatus ( Fabricius, 1798 )

Ivie, Michael A. & Hart, Charles J., 2016, Redefinition ofDiastolinusMulsant and Rey, with a Review of West Indian Blapstinoid Genera (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Opatrini), The Coleopterists Bulletin 70 (3), pp. 447-481 : 447-481

Platylus dilatatus ( Fabricius, 1798)

( Figs. 31–36 )

Blaps dilatatus Fabricius 1798: 47 (type locality: St. Thomas ).

Platylus dilatatus ; Mulsant and Rey 1859: 71, 1860: 135 (St. Thomas); Leng and Mutchler 1914: 460 (St. Thomas); Gebien 1938: 294 [413] (St. Thomas);. Blackwelder 1945: 524 (St. Thomas); Marcuzzi 1957: 128 (St. Thomas), 1962: 25 (St. Thomas), 1984: 76 (St. Thomas); Iwan 2004: 741, 751, figs 155–157; Garrido 2003: 27 (Vieques); Valentine and Ivie 2005: 279 (Guana (STX)).

Distribution. Vieques, St. Thomas, Saba * (STT, WIBF), Great St. James* (STT, WIBF), St. John* (WIBF), Jost van Dyke* (WIBF), Guana (TOR), Great Camanoe* (TOR, WIBF), Carrot Rock* (Peter Is., WIBF), Necker Is.* (VG, WIBF), St. Croix* (WIBF).

Figures

Figs. 31–36. Platylus dilatatus: 31) Dorsal habitus; 32) Humeral angle; 33) Aedeagus, dorsal view; 34) Head and prothorax, ventral view; 35) Abdominal ventrites; 36) Aedeagus, lateral view.