Platysimus planidorsis (Broun), 2008

Kuschel, Guillermo, 2008, Curculionoidea (weevils) of New Caledonia and Vanuatu: Basal families and some Curculionidae, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 197, pp. 99-250 : 159-160

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scientific name	Platysimus planidorsis (Broun)
status	comb. nov.

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Platysimus planidorsis (Broun) View in CoL n. comb.

Fig. 57

Rhyncogonus planidorsis Broun, 1910: 296 View in CoL .

DESCRIPTION. — This species has the general facies of P. insularis but is on average quite a bit larger. Stria 5 is wider and more convex than 6 near the top of the declivity. The aedeagus is more than 4 x longer than wide at the

narrowest point between base and sides of the ostial area, and the apex is long. The spermatheca is like Thompson’s (1982) fig. 12 of P. septentrionalis but with a longer duct extension.

Length: 4.3-6.5 mm.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Described from a unique specimen. Holotype male, 4.8 x 2.3 mm, 22, Rhyncogonus planidorsis Broun, BMNH. Identified non-type specimens with BPBM, IRSN, NZAC.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Kermadec Is.: Meyer I., Sunday I. 60 specimens .

References

BROUN T. 1910. - On the Coleoptera of the Kermadec Islands. Transactions FAIRMAIRE L. 1881 b. - Essai sur les Coleopteres des iles Viti (Fidgi). Annales de of the New Zealand Institute 42: 291 - 306. la Societe entomologique de France (6) 1 (2): 243 - 256; 1 (3): 257 - 318.