Platyrhinus resinosus (Scopoli, 1763)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Coleoptera → suborder Polyphaga → infraorder Cucujiformia → superfamily Curculionoidea → family Anthribidae → subfamily Anthribinae → tribe Platyrhinini → genus Platyrhinus → species Platyrhinus resinosus

Species name(s)

Platyrhinus resinosus (Scopoli, 1763) = Silpha flavifrons Fuessly 1775 = Silpha oblongus Sulzer 1776 = Platyrhinus costirostris Clairville 1798 = Anthribus latirostris Fabricius 1792. [10]

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

European Turkey, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Romania, Russia North, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Serbia, Kosovo, Voivodina, Montenegro, Near East, North Africa [10].
Russia Central [PC93].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Body length: 9-12 mm. Unlike @ @ Platystomos albinus,@ @ Platyrhinus resinosus is black, covered with recumbent brown-black and grayish-white hairs. Elytra with small brownish-yellow spots on the tubercles and at odd intervals between the longitudinal grooves. Pronotum in front of the base with a thin and sharp transverse keel, in the middle with a wide longitudinal depression. The head tube is very wide. The upper edges of the eyes protrude above the surface of the head, the forehead between the eyes is depressed. [249].