TY  - GEN
A1  - Setliff, Gregory P.
A1  - Larson, Peter A.
T1  - The Indo-Australian weevil genus Platytenes Pascoe, 1870 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae)
T2  - Insecta mundi : a journal of world insect systematics
N2  - The formerly monotypic weevil genus Platytenes Pascoe (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae: Cryptorhynchini: Cryptorhynchina) as treated here, includes two commonly encountered and broadly distributed species in the eastern Indo-Australian region. Label data indicate that both species are associated with semicultivated betel palm (Areca catechu L., Arecaceae) and human mediated dispersal is suggested to have influenced their present-day distribution. Herein, we provide a diagnosis for Platytenes and redescribe its type species, P. varius Pascoe. We also describe P. occultus Setliff and Larson, a new species from the Solomon Islands. New host and locality records are provided, including the first records of the genus occurring on Ambon Island, the Bismarck Archipelago, D’Entrecasteaux Islands, and many previously unreported localities on New Guinea. A full bibliography, key to species, and distribution map for the genus are also provided.
T3  - Insecta Mundi - 0079 
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13321
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1142035
UR  - http://www.centerforsystematicentomology.org/insectamundi/
SN  - 1942-1354
SN  - 0749-6737
PB  - Center for Systematic Entomology
CY  - Gainesville, Fla.
ER  -