Genus Platycoelus Blanchard, 1853

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• Platycoelus Blanchard, C.E. 1842. Planches I–XVII. In, Dumont-d'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée; pendant les années, 1837–40, par Hombron et Jacquinot. Atlas of 140 plates. Paris pp. [Plate 2 image 10.].
• Platycoelus Blanchard, C.E. 1853. Description des Insectes. pp. 1-422 in Dumont-d'Urville, J. Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée pendant les années 1837–1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville Capitaine de vaisseau. Atlas, Zoologie. Paris : Gide et Cie et J. Baudry Vol. 4 422 pp. [published between 1842–1853] [25].

  Type species:

   Platycoelus depressus Blanchard, 1853 by monotypy.
• Psegmatopterus Chaudoir, M. de 1878. Descriptions de genres nouveaux et d'espèces inédites de la famille des Carabiques. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 53(2): 1-80 [4].
• Chlaenioidius Chaudoir, M. de 1865. Essai sur les Féronides de l'Australie et de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 38(3-4): 65-112 [110] [originally proposed with subgeneric rank in Feronia Latreille, 1817].

  Type species:

   Pterostichus (Poecilus) prolixus Erichson, 1842 by subsequent designation, see Darlington, P.J. Jr 1962. The carabid beetles of New Guinea Part I. Cicindelinae, Carabinae, Harpalinae through Pterostichini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 126: 321-564 pls 4 [541].
• Hypherpinus Straneo, S.L. 1938. Nuovi Pterostichini (Coleopt. Carab.). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana. Genova 16: 226-231 [227].

  Type species:

   Hypherpinus jedlickai Straneo, 1938 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Darlington, P.J. Jr 1962. The carabid beetles of New Guinea Part I. Cicindelinae, Carabinae, Harpalinae through Pterostichini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 126: 321-564 pls 4 [541].
• Dalbertisia Straneo, S.L. 1939. Nuovi Pterostichini. Nota II. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana. Genova 18: 117-123 [117].

  Type species:

   Dalbertisia lucidula Straneo, 1939 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Moore, B.P. 1965. Studies on Australian Carabidae (Coleoptera). 4. The Pterostichinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 117: 1-32 [24].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Darlington, P.J. Jr 1962. The carabid beetles of New Guinea Part I. Cicindelinae, Carabinae, Harpalinae through Pterostichini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 126: 321-564 pls 4 [541]
• Will, K. 2015. A taxonomic review, new species and a key to species of Platycoelus Blanchard, 1843 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini). Zootaxa 4034(2): 291-308 [292]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; Qld: Gulf Plains (GUP)

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