Plateros reductetestaceus Pic, 1938, stat.n.

Plateros nitidus var. reductetestaceus Pic, 1938: 160 .

DISTRIBUTION. ‘Tonkin’.

REMARKS. Pic´s [1938] description of this variety of Plateros nitidus Pic, 1938 reads as follows: ‘ Tonkin. Seulement les côtes postérieurs du thorax sont testacés.’ This variety distinguished by the testaceous posteriorly pronotum may turn out to represent a good species. No type specimens of this taxon were found in the Pic collection at MNHN, and no specimens that would match the above description could be detected in the studied material.