Platypus (beetle)

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Platypus
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Platypus cylindrus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Curculionidae
Subfamily: Platypodinae
Tribe: Platypodini
Genus: Platypus
Herbst, 1793
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Platypus is a weevil genus in the subfamily Platypodinae.

Species

References

  1. Adam White (1846). "Insects of New Zealand". In J. Richardson & J. E. Gray (ed.). 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. Vol. 2. London: E. W. Janson. pp. 1–51.
  2. "Wood borers you should know". Museum Victoria website. Museum Victoria. Archived from the original on August 4, 2008. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
  3. 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.