Subfamily Platypodinae - Pinhole Borers

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Remarks · Works Cited

Oxoplatypus quadridentatus? - Oxoplatypus quadridentatus - female

Pinhole Bark Borer Beetle - Euplatypus compositus

Curculionidae ? - Myoplatypus flavicornis

Pennsylvania Beetle - Euplatypus compositus

Oxoplatypus quadridentatus in Maryland - Oxoplatypus quadridentatus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Curculionoidea

Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)

Subfamily Platypodinae (Pinhole Borers)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

NA spp. were all placed in the genus Platypus until Wood (1993)(1)

Explanation of Names

Platypodinae Shuckard 1839

Numbers

4 genera;

Euplatypus, 3 spp. - E. compositus (SE US), E. parallelus (s. TX, s. FL), E. pini (AZ-NM).

Myoplatypus, 1 sp. - SE US, in pines

Oxoplatypus, 1 sp. - SE US to AZ, on oak

Treptoplatypus, 2 spp. - T. abietis (AZ-NM-UT), T. wilsoni (BC & nw. US)

Identification

Sexual dimorphism pronounced in many spp. The ventral surface is key to ID.

Remarks

this group may be sister to the remaining Curculionidae sensu Bouchard et al. 2011(2)

Works Cited

1.	Revision of the genera of Platypodidae (Coleoptera) Wood S.L. 1993. Great Basin Naturalist 53: 259-281.

2.	Bulk de novo mitogenome assembly from pooled total DNA elucidates the phylogeny of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) Gillett C.P.D.T., Crampton-Platt A., Timmermans M.J.T.N., Jordal B.H., Emerson B.C., Vogler A.P. 2014. Mol. Biol. Evol. 31: 2223-2237.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 19 March, 2006 - 8:22pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, thatkinson
Last updated 10 September, 2015 - 11:38am

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