Platyrhopalopsis

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Adephaga

Familia: Carabidae
Subfamilia: Paussinae
Tribus: Paussini
Genus: Platyrhopalopsis

Subgenera: P. (Platyrhopalides) – P. (Platyrhopalopsis)

Overview of species: P. badgleyi – P. meleii – P. picteti
Name

Platyrhopalopsis Desneux, 1905: 15 (key), 20
Synonyms

Platyrhopalides Wasmann, 1918

Platyrhopalopsis meleii

References
Primary references

Desneux, J. 1905. Coleoptera Adephaga, Fam. Paussidae. Genera Insectorum 35: 1–34. BHL Reference page.

Links

Platyrhopalopsis – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
Platyrhopalopsis – Taxon details on Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Platyrhopalopsis is a genus of flanged-bombardier beetles in the family Carabidae. They are found, as in others of the group, within ant nests, in the Indo-Malayan region. Adults are rarely seen except at lights. The flat terminal segment of the antenna is thought, based on studies of pupal development, to be formed by the fusion of multiple antennomere segments.[1] The genus, placed by some in the tribe Platyrhopalina,[2] includes the following three species:[3][4]

Platyrhopalopsis badgleyi Fowler, 1912 - Found in north-eastern India.
Platyrhopalopsis melleii (Westwood, 1833) - Found in southern India. They are known from the nests of ants of the genus Carebara, particularly C. diversus.
Platyrhopalopsis picteti (Westwood, 1874) - Found in Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos,Cambodia.

References

Di Giulio, Andrea; Kaupp, Andreas; Fattorini, Simone; Taglianti, A. Vigna; Nagel, Peter (2007). "Pupal morphology in the subfamily Paussinae (Coleoptera: Carabidae)". Revue suisse de Zoologie. 114 (1): 33–48. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.80386.
Bousquet, Yves (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys (245): 1–1722. doi:10.3897/zookeys.245.3416. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 3577090. PMID 23431087.
"Platyrhopalopsis Desneux, 1905: 15". Carabidae of the World. 2011. Retrieved 21 Jul 2011.
Fowler, W.W. (1912). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera. General Introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 467–468.