Genus Platymela Baly, 1856

Museums

Regional Maps

• Platymela Baly, J.S. 1856. Monograph of the Australian species of Chrysomela, Phyllocharis and allied genera (continued). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London n.s. 3(7): 241-265 [Date published 4 Feb. 1856] [241].

  Type species:

   Platymela sticticollis Baly, 1856 by subsequent designation, see Reid, C.A.M. 2006. A taxonomic revision of the Australian Chrysomelinae, with a key to the genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Zootaxa 1292: 1-119 [92].
• Macelola Selman, B.J. 1975. Macelola, A new genus of the subfamily Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 14: 65-70 [65].

  Type species:

   Australica digglesi Baly, 1865 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Reid, C.A.M. 2006. A taxonomic revision of the Australian Chrysomelinae, with a key to the genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Zootaxa 1292: 1-119 [92]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Also Timor.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

General References

Daccordi, M. 1994. Notes for the phylogenetic study of Chrysomelinae, with descriptions of new taxa and a list of all the known genera. pp. 60-84 in Furth, D. (ed.). Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Chrysomelidae, Bejing, 1992. Leiden : Backhuys 150 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as subgenus of Callidemum Blanchard)

Daccordi, M. 2000. New Australian Chrysomelinae taxa (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae). Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali. Torino 17(1): 187-204 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as subgenus of Callidemum Blanchard)

Reid, C.A.M. 2006. A taxonomic revision of the Australian Chrysomelinae, with a key to the genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Zootaxa 1292: 1-119 [92] (diagnostic description; revised status)

 

History of changes

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		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED