Species Platycotylus nitidulus (Macleay, 1871)
- Ipsaphes nitidulus Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [168].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS), Gayndah, Qld; AM K453660, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E]; BMNH. - Platycotylus inusitatus Olliff, A.S. 1883. Remarks on a small collection of clavicorn Coleoptera from Borneo, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1883: 173-186 [183].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH, Sandakan, N Borneo. - Platycotylus nigripes Olliff, A.S. 1883. Remarks on a small collection of clavicorn Coleoptera from Borneo, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1883: 173-186 [60].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH, Kaioa Ils (Wallace Ils). - Sitophagus spinicollis Fairmaire, L. 1893. Contribution à la faune indo-chinoise. Coléoptères hétéromères. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 62: 19-38 [27].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Indochina. - Sitophagus suturalis Fairmaire, L. 1893. Coléoptères nouveaux des Indes Orientales, de la famille des Scarabaeidae, Rhipiceridae, Tenebrionidae et Oedmeridae. Notes from the Leyden Museum 15: 17-64 [28] [as var.].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Andaman Ils. - Platycotylus coloratus Blackburn, T. 1903. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 27: 91-182 [147].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH, Townsville, Qld. - Doliema laticollis Pic, M. 1923. Nouveautés diverses. Mélanges Exotico-Entomologiques, Moulins 40: 3-32 [25].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP, Celebes [Sulawesi].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Carter, H.J. 1930. New Guinea and Australian Coleoptera. Notes and new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 55: 532-549 [Date published 15 Dec. 1930] [547] (S. spinicollis Fairmaire)
- Merkl, O. 1992. Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) from Laos and Vietnam, with reclassification of Old World “Doliema”. Acta Zoologica Hungarica 38: 261-280 [276, 277] (P. inusitatus Olliff, P. nigripes Olliff, P. coloratus Blackburn, D. laticollis Pic)
History of changes
Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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