Platysodes verlorenii Westwood 1873
Creators: name: Qiu, Jian-Yue
name: Xu, Hao
name: Chen, Li
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cetoniidae
Platysodes
Platysodes verlorenii

description: Platysodes verlorenii Westwood, 1873
(Figs. 11–13, 42)
Platysodes verlorenii Westwood, 1873: 23 (type locality: Java), plate VII, fig. 4 ♀; Sakai & Nagai 1998: 163 (Mt. Bawang, West Kalimantan, Indonesia), plate 5, fig. 110 ♀; Krajčik 2012: 213.
Platysodes verloreni Westwood: Schenkling 1921: 357; Krikken 1977: 314 (holotype, ♀); Krajčik 1999: 43; Smetana 2006: 300; Legrand & Chew Kea Foo 2010: 89 (Crocker Range, Sabah, Malaysia), fig. 263 ♀.
Diagnosis. This species usually has three velvety, white maculae on each elytron behind the humeral umbone, near the middle of the sutural costa, and adjoining the lateral margin. The distal declivities of the elytra with a matte area are unique to this species.
Type material examined. Holotype (by monotypy) of Platysodes verlorenii Westwood, 1873 is labeled: “Blume, Java [H., yellowed label]/ Platysodes, Westw. [H., yellowed label with red border]/ verlorenii, Westw. [H., yellowed label with black border]/ Holotype [P., red label] / Holotype: checked, Museum Leiden [P., white label]” (♀, RMNH, Figs. 11–12).
Comments on type material. The holotype is glued together and in poor condition. Presumably it was dissected for illustrations of mouthparts in the original publication (Fig. 13). There are two words in the label of the type specimen, “Blume” and “Java”. “Blume” probably refers to Carl Ludwig Blume (1796–1862), a German- Dutch botanist and entomologist who collected enormous amounts of specimens in the Dutch East Indies (i.e., Indonesia) and worked at Leiden (Bartelds 1930).
Other material examined. INDONESIA: 1♀ (ZMHB), Java / Platysodes verloreni Westw. [H.]. MALAYSIA: 1♀ (KSCJ), Mt. Bawang, West Kalimantan, VII.1992.
Distribution. Indonesia (Java, Kalimantan); Malaysia (Sabah).
Nomenclature. According to the original publication (Westwood 1873), the use of the genitive ending - ii of the species name of this species is based upon a personal name, so the correct original spelling, verlorenii, should be preserved as the Articles 31.1 and 33.4 (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999).
Remarks. Platysodes verlorenii is the species in the genus with the most southerly distribution. No male specimen have been discovered to date. Sakai and Nagai (1998) and Legrand and Chew Kea Foo (2010) recorded two females from Borneo with a white macula behind the humeral umbone, although this maculae is not present in the female holotype. Legrand and Chew Kea Foo (2010) indicated that the elytral distal declivities bear a matte area, that can also be seen in the illustrations of the original publication (Westwood 1873). This is a character not present in other species of the genus.
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 553-564 in Zootaxa 4021 (4) on page 562, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/240955