Platysodes

Qiu, Jian-Yue, Xu, Hao & Chen, Li, 2015, Review of the Oriental genus Platysodes Westwood (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Cremastocheilini) with a redescription of Platysodes madoni Bourgoin, Zootaxa 4021 (4), pp. 553-564 : 555

Key to the species of the genus Platysodes

1. Discolateral and discomedian costae of elytra distinct; last spiracle distinctly protruding ( Figs. 14, 16 )........... P. madoni

- Discolateral and discomedian costae indistinct; last spiracle prominent ( Figs. 1, 6, 11 )............................... 2

2. Elytra completely black, without white maculae ( Fig. 6 )................................................ P. jansoni

- Elytra with white maculae............................................................................... 3

3. Elytra without white macula near the sutural costae; distal declivities smooth ( Fig. 1 )...................... P. formosanus

- Elytra with white maculae on disc near the sutural costae; distal declivities matte ( Fig. 11 )................... P. verlorenii

Figures

FIGURES 14 – 19. Habitus of Platysodes madoni Bourgoin, 1923. 14 – 16. Male: 14. dorsal; 15. ventral; 16. oblique. Female: 17. dorsal; 18. ventral; 19. oblique.

FIGURES 1 – 13. Type specimens of Platysodes. 1 – 5. Male holotype of Platysodes formosanus Kobayashi, 1990: 1. dorsal; 2. ventral; 3. lateral; 4. parameres; 5. labels. 6 – 10. Male holotype of Platysodes jansoni Arrow, 1910: 6. dorsal; 7. ventral; 8. lateral; 9. parameres; 10. labels. 11 – 13. Female holotype of Platysodes verlorenii Westwood, 1873: 11. dorsal; 12. labels; 13. dorsal and mouthpart illustrations in original publication (after Westwood 1837).