Platypus (weevil)

Short description: Genus of beetles

Platypus

Platypus cylindrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Infraorder:  | Cucujiformia
Family:  | Curculionidae
Subfamily:  | Platypodinae
Tribe:  | Platypodini
Genus:  | Platypus
Herbst, 1793
Species

See text

Platypus is a weevil genus in the subfamily Platypodinae.

## Species

* Platypus apicalis White, 1846[1]
* Platypus australis Chapuis, 1865[2]
* Platypus calamus
* Platypus cylindrus (Fabricius, 1792)
* Platypus contaminatus
* Platypus gracilis
* Platypus hamatus
* Platypus kiushuensis
* Platypus lewisi
* Platypus modestus
* Platypus parallelus (Fabricius, 1801)[3]
* Platypus quercivorus Murayama, 1925[4]
* Platypus severini
* Platypus solidus
* Platypus taiwansis

## References

1. ↑ Adam White (1846). "Insects of New Zealand". in J. Richardson & J. E. Gray. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus & Terror under Command of Captain Sir J. C. Ross, during the years 1839 to 1843. 2. London: E. W. Janson. pp. 1–51. https://archive.org/stream/zoologyofvoyageo02rich#page/18/mode/2up.
2. ↑ "Wood borers you should know". Museum Victoria website. Museum Victoria. http://museumvictoria.com.au/discoverycentre/infosheets/10312/. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
3. ↑ "Platypus parallelus (Fabricius, 1801)". Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/uk-species/species/platypus_parallelus.html. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
4. ↑ Sone, K., Mori, T., Ide, M. (1998). Life history of the oak borer, Platypus quercivorus (Murayama) (Coleoptera : Platypodidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology 33: 67-75.

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