Platerodrilini Kazantsev, 2005

Kazantsev, Sergey V., 2021, New and little known taxa of neotenic lyropaeine net-winged beetles (Coleoptera Lycidae), Zootaxa 4965 (3), pp. 437-460 : 442

Tribe Platerodrilini Kazantsev, 2005

Diagnosis. The tribe Platerodrilini is different from Miniduliticolini in the antennal structure, with antennomere 3 similar in size and vestiture to antennomere 2, not to antennomere 4, in the elytra with longitudinal costae, in the hind wing venation, with cubital veins connected to media, and in the plantar pad present at least on tarsomere 4. The tribe can be easily distinguished from Lyropaeini by the developed mandibles and long narrow median lobe of the male genitalia.

Distribution. The tribe Platerodrilini is endemic to Southeast Asia and is found from the eastern Himalayas and Central China to Java, Borneo, and the Philippines.

Remarks. Further study of the genus Autaphes Kazantsev, 2005 from the Northern Territory, Australia (Holotype of the type species deposited in USNM, Washington, D.C.) that was placed in Platerodrilini (‘Duliticolini’), provided that it confirms its placement, may expand the distribution area of the tribe. At the same time Microeron Kazantsev, 2005 from Mexico (Holotype of the type species deposited in AMNH, New York), that was also tentatively referred to Platerodrilini ( Kazantsev, 2005), apparently does not belong here and should be attributed to Calopterini .