Platypus variolosus 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 : 499

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4434.3.5
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5970747
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scientific name	Platypus variolosus Schedl
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Platypus variolosus Schedl

Platypus variolosus Schedl, 1942: 201 .

Baiocis variolosus (Schedl) View in CoL : Browne 1962: 652.

Taxonomy: This species was described in Platypus from the female sex only, but transferred to Baiocis by Browne (1962). Schedl (1967) returned the species to Platypus . The senior author has examined the lectotype (NMW). It belongs in the genus Platypus , and is related to the species group including Platypus lunifer Schedl and P.subdepressus Schedl , being closest to an undescribed species from Borneo. The unknown male may already have been described under another name.

Distribution: The species is recorded from West Malaysia and Sumatra.

Biology: Unknown.