Subgenus Platynectes (Platynectes) Régimbart, 1878

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• Platynectes Régimbart, M. 1878. Étude sur la classification des Dytiscidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 5 8: 447-466 [454].

  Type species:

   Agabus decemnotatus Aubé, 1838 by subsequent designation, see Guignot, F. 1946. Génotypes des Dytiscoidea et des Gyrinoidea. Revue Française d'Entomologie 13: 112-118 [117].
• Neoplatynectes Guéorguiev, V.B. 1972. Notes sur les Agabini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). II. Révision des genres Platynectes Rég. et Colymbinectes Falk. Izvestiya na Zoologicheskiya Institut. Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite 34: 33-62 [34] [first introduced as a subgenus of Platynectes Régimbart, 1878; junior primary homonym of Neoplatynectes Vazirani, 1970].

  Type species:

   Colymbetes magellanicus Babington, 1841 by original designation.
• Notoplatynectes Guéorguiev, V.B. 1978. Dytiscidae cavernicoles de papouasie (Résultats zoologiques de la Mission spéléologique britannique en Papouasie-Nouvelle Guinée, 1975, 1). International Journal of Speleology 9: 267-272 [270] [replacement name for Neoplatynectes Guéorguiev, 1972].

  Type species:

   Colymbetes magellanicus Babington, 1841 by subsequent designation, see Nilsson, A.N. 2001. World Catalogue of Insects. Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Stenstrup : Apollo Books Vol. 3 395 pp. [43] (designated under Article 67.8).
• Hypoplatynectes Guéorguiev, V.B. 1972. Notes sur les Agabini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). II. Révision des genres Platynectes Rég. et Colymbinectes Falk. Izvestiya na Zoologicheskiya Institut. Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite 34: 33-62 [34] [first introduced as a subgenus of Platynectes Régimbart, 1878].

  Type species:

   Colymbetes submaculatus Laporte, 1835 by original designation.
• Carinonectes Vazirani, T.G. 1976. Contributions to the study of aquatic beetles (Coleoptera). 15. Subgeneric classification of Platynectes Régimbart (Dytiscidae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India 71: 169-173 [171] [replacement name for Neoplatynectes Guéorguiev, 1972].

  Type species:

   Colymbetes magellanicus Babington, 1841 by subsequent designation, see Nilsson, A.N. 2001. World Catalogue of Insects. Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Stenstrup : Apollo Books Vol. 3 395 pp. [43] (designated under Article 67.8).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NSW, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

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