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Issue: Vol. 4021 No. 4: 29 Sept. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-09-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.4.5
Page range: 553–564
Abstract views: 65
PDF downloaded: 5

Review of the Oriental genus Platysodes Westwood (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Cremastocheilini) with a redescription of Platysodes madoni Bourgoin

College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Chongqing 400716, P. R. China.
Administration of Mt. Simianshan, Jiangjin, Chongqing 402296, P. R. China.
College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Chongqing 400716, P. R. China.
Coleoptera Cremastocheilina flower beetle Asia China nomenclature

Abstract

The genus Platysodes Westwood, 1873 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Cremastocheilini) is reviewed, with an identification key, images, and distributional map for all species. Platysodes madoni Bourgoin, 1923 is newly recorded from southern China, and a lectotype is designated for this species. The year of publication of Platysodes is corrected to 1873.