Platydema novaeguineense Gebien, 1920

Soldati, Laurent, Kergoat, Gael J. & Condamine, Fabien L., 2012, Preliminary report on the Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) collected during the SANTO 2006 expedition to Vanuatu, with description of a new species of the genus Uloma Dejean, 1821, Zoosystema 34 (2), pp. 305-317 : 307

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n2a8
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5C3A8797-E50A-9356-228A-FA3B7332FE18
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Platydema novaeguineense Gebien, 1920
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Platydema novaeguineense Gebien, 1920: 259 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Vanuatu. Espiritu Santo Isl., Luganville, CETRAV in Saraoutou, ecotone between dense rainforest and coffee tree plantation, in fungi growing on a rotten log, 2-10.X.2006, leg. L. Soldati, 2 ♂♂ ( MNHN), 1 ♂ (coll. LS).

DISTRIBUTION. — Described from New Guinea (type locality: Doré), this species is also present in the Solomon Islands ( Schawaller 2008). First record for Vanuatu.

Tribe HYPOPHLAEINI Billberg, 1820