Genus Platysphyrus Sloane, 1905

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• Platysphyrus Sloane, T.G. 1905. Revisional notes on Australian Carabidae. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 29: 699-733 [710].

  Type species:

   Platysphyrus tibialis Sloane, 1905 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Baehr, M. 2008. The Australian Clivinini 1. The genera Ancus Putzeys, Aspidoglossa Putzeys, Clivinarchus Sloane, Platysphyrus Sloane, Pseudoclivina Kult, Rhysocara Sloane, Syleter Andrews, the subgenera Paraclivina Kult, Semiclivina Kult, and the atrata-, biplagiata-, brevicornis-, coronata-, coryzoides-, cribrosa-, debilis-, denticollis-, grandiceps-, incerta-, lobata-, obliquata-, obsoleta-, orbitalis-, planiceps-, sulcaticeps-, tranquebaria- and wurargae-groups of the genus Clivina Latreille. With a note on a record of the genus Parathlibops Basilewsky (Scapterini) (Carabidae, Scaritinae). Coleoptera 12: 1-220 [14-15].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

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