Platypus perangustus Schedl, 1942

Beaver, Roger A., 2018, A review of the genus Baiocis Browne, 1962 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae), with new species, new synonymy and a key to males, Zootaxa 4434 (3), pp. 481-501 : 498

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4434.3.5

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scientific name

Platypus perangustus Schedl
status

 

Platypus perangustus Schedl

Platypus perangustus Schedl, 1942: 202 .

Baiocis perangustus (Schedl) : Browne 1962: 652.

Platypus sindorae Browne, 1980: 488 . syn. n.

Platypus vagus Browne, 1983: 568 ; Beaver 1995: 201. Synonymy with P. sindorae .

Taxonomy: This species was incorrectly transferred to Baiocis by Browne (1962: 652). It is listed in that genus by Wood and Bright (1992), although Schedl (1972) had already transferred it back to Platypus . The senior author has compared the lectotype male of P. perangustus ( NMW) with specimens in the senior author’s collection previously compared with the holotypes of Platypus sindorae Browne and P. vagus ( BMNH). The species are synonymous with Schedl's species having priority. It is a somewhat variable species ( Beaver 1995).

Distribution: Recorded only from East Malaysia ( Sarawak), West Malaysia and Singapore. Imported to Japan in timber from Sarawak ( Ohno 1990).

Biology: Recorded from Cratoxylum arborescens ( Clusiaceae ), Sindora sp. (Leguminosae) and Myristicaceae sp. ( Browne 1980, Ohno, 1990).

NMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Platypus