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Platypodini

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy
Platypodini was named by Shuckard (1839). It is extant. Its type is Platypus.

It was assigned to Platypodinae by Wood and Bright (1992), Bouchard et al. (2011) and Legalov (2015).

Subtaxa
Crossotarsus, Doliopygus, Euplatypus, Platypus (type genus)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1839Platypodini Shuckard
1992Platypodini Wood and Bright p. 1113
2011Platypodini Bouchard et al.
2015Platypodini Legalov p. 1503

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyCurculionidae()
subfamilyPlatypodinaeShuckard 1839
tribePlatypodiniShuckard 1839
tribePlatypodiniShuckard 1839

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Tr. Platypodini Shuckard 1839
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G. Crossotarsus Chapuis 1865
G. Doliopygus Schedl 1939
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Doliopygus crinitus Chapuis 1865
Doliopygus serratus Strohmeyer 1911
Doliopygus tenuis Strohmayer 1912
G. Euplatypus Wood 1993
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Euplatypus solutus Schedl 1933
G. Platypus Herbst 1793
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Platypus cylindrus Fabricius 1792
†Platypus maravignae Guérin-Méneville 1838
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Holocene or 11.60800 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 5.333 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Italy Platypus maravignae (153942)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom Platypus cylindrus (168264 168269 168270 168272)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Tanzania Doliopygus serratus (234540) Platypus solutus, Crossotarsus tenuis, Crossotarsus crinitus (123991)