Platydema simbangense Kaszab, 1939

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
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5171476
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5C3A8797-E50A-9356-22A4-FBFE75D5FA51
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Platydema simbangense Kaszab, 1939
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Platydema simbangense Kaszab, 1939: 197 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Vanuatu. Espiritu Santo Isl., Luganville, CETRAV in Saraoutou, ecotone between dense rainforest and coffee tree plantation, beating dead branches covered with fungi, 2-10.X.2006, leg. L. Soldati, 4 ♂♂ ( MNHN), 4 ♂♂ (coll. LS). — Espiritu Santo Isl., Butmas, rainforest, 21.X.2006, leg. L. Soldati, 1 ♂ ( MNHN), 1 ♀ (coll. LS).

DISTRIBUTION. — New Guinea (type locality Simbang), Solomon Island ( Schawaller 2008) and Vanuatu (new record).