Polyplocotes

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: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Bostrichiformia
Superfamilia: Bostrichoidea

Familia: Ptinidae
Subfamilia: Ptininae
Tribus: Ectrephini
Genus: Polyplocotes
Name

Polyplocotes Westwood, 1869. Type species: Polyplocotes longicollis Westwood, 1869, by subsequent designation by Lawrence & Reichardt (1969: 19).
Synonymy

Hexaplocotes Lea, 1906. Type species: Hexaplocotes sulcifrons Lea, 1906, by monotypy. [syn. Lawrence & Reichardt (1969: 19)]
Leaptinus Mjöberg, 1916. Type species: Paussoptinus dolichognathus Lea, 1912, by monotypy. [syn. Lawrence & Reichardt (1969: 19)]
Paussoceros Mjöberg, 1916. Type species: Paussoceros antennalis Mjöberg, 1916, by monotypy. [syn. Lawrence & Reichardt (1969: 19)]

References

Bell, K.L.; Philips, T.K. 2009: New species of the myrmecophile Polyplocotes Westwood (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) from South Australia. Australian journal of entomology, 48: 15–24.
Lawrence, J.F.; Reichardt, H. 1969: The myrmecophilous Ptinidae (Coleoptera), with a key to Australian species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard), 138(1): 1–28. [1]
Mjöberg, E. 1916: Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 8. Ptinidae. Arkiv för zoologi, 10(6): 1–15. [2]