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Published: 2011-08-25
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Description of a second species in the enigmatic Southeast Asian genus Platygeniops (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae)

Cisovice 54, 25204 Praha-Západ, Czech Republic
National Museum of Natural History Naturalis, PO Box 9517, 2300RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Coleoptera Scarabaeoidea Trichiini Platygeniops new species Southeast Asia

Abstract

A second species of Platygeniops Krikken, 1978 (Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Trichiini: Osmodermatina) is described from the Myanmar-Thai-Malay isthmus and peninsula. The description of Platygeniops elongatus new species is based on two males and a female. The new species is compared with P. exspectans Krikken, 1978 from the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. The genus is re-diagnosed and its enigmatic status is briefly discussed.

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