Platypus perangustus Schedl, 1942

Beaver, Roger A., 2018, A review of the genus Baiocis Browne, 1962 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae), with new species, new synonymy and a key to males, Zootaxa 4434 (3), pp. 481-501 : 498

Platypus perangustus Schedl

Platypus perangustus Schedl, 1942: 202 .

Baiocis perangustus (Schedl) : Browne 1962: 652.

Platypus sindorae Browne, 1980: 488 . syn. n.

Platypus vagus Browne, 1983: 568 ; Beaver 1995: 201. Synonymy with P. sindorae .

Taxonomy: This species was incorrectly transferred to Baiocis by Browne (1962: 652). It is listed in that genus by Wood and Bright (1992), although Schedl (1972) had already transferred it back to Platypus . The senior author has compared the lectotype male of P. perangustus (NMW) with specimens in the senior author’s collection previously compared with the holotypes of Platypus sindorae Browne and P. vagus (BMNH). The species are synonymous with Schedl's species having priority. It is a somewhat variable species ( Beaver 1995).

Distribution: Recorded only from East Malaysia ( Sarawak), West Malaysia and Singapore. Imported to Japan in timber from Sarawak ( Ohno 1990).

Biology: Recorded from Cratoxylum arborescens (Clusiaceae) , Sindora sp. (Leguminosae) and Myristicaceae sp. ( Browne 1980, Ohno, 1990).