Genus Platypus Herbst, 1793

Museums

Regional Maps

• Platypus Herbst, J.F.W. 1793. Natursystem aller bekannten in- und auslandischen Insekten, als eine Fortsetzung der von Büffonschen Naturgeschichte. Der Käfer. Berlin : Pauli xvi + 392 pp. + pl. XLIV–LIX. [128].

  Type species:

   Bostrichus cylindrus Fabricius, 1793 by monotypy.
• Cylindra Illiger, J.C.W. 1802. Aufzählung der Käfergattungen nach der Zahl der Fussglieder. Magazin für Insektenkunde (Illiger) 1(3-4): 285–305 [303] [replacement name; for Platypus Herbst].
• Stenoplatypus Strohmeyer, H. 1914. Coleoptera. Fam. Platypodidae. Genera Insectorum 163: 1-55 + pl. 1-12 [Date published 20-VI-1914] [35] [subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Crossotarsus spinulosus Strohmeyer, 1912 by subsequent designation, see Wood, S.L. 1992. Nomenclatural changes and new species of Platypodidae and Scolytidae (Coleoptera). Great Basin Naturalist 52(2): 78-88 [90].

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

CURCULIONIDAE: Platypus hybridus Schedl, 1935 — Bickerstaff, J.R.M., Smith, S.S., Kent, D.S., Beaver, R.A., Seago, A.E. & Riegler, M. 2020. A review of the distribution and host plant associations of the platypodine ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae) of Australia, with an electronic species identification key. Zootaxa 4894(1): 069–080 [Date published 08/12/2020]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes