Platypus apicatulus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Curculionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Curculionoidea

Familia: Curculionidae
Subfamilia: Platypodinae
Tribus: Platypodini
Genus: Platypus
Species: Platypus apicatulus

Name

Platypus apicatulus Schedl 1975: 381

• Type locality: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Upper Manki logging area, Bulolo, Morobe District.

• Holotype: Collection Schedl, 13.I.15. and 29.IX.1972, ex sticky traps, F. R. Wylie & P. Shanahan.

References

• Schedl, K.E., 1975: New Scolytidae and Platypodidae from Papua New Guinea, IV. 317. Contribution to the Morphology and Taxonomy of the Scolytoidea. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien (A) 79: 337–399. PDFReference page.  [original description: p. 381]