Plateros purpureus Pic, 1942

Kazantsev, S. V., 2021, A review of Plateros Bourgeois, 1879 of Indochina (Coleoptera: Lycidae), Russian Entomological Journal 30 (1), pp. 47-73 : 67

Plateros purpureus Pic, 1942

Plateros purpureus Pic, 1942: 6 .

DISTRIBUTION. ‘Tonkin’.

REMARKS. Pic´s [1942] description reads as follows: ‘ Elongatus , niger, thorace, scutello elytrisque purpureis, antennis valde depressis, articulis pro parte dentatis; thorace transverso, medio late sulcato; elytris sat regulariter costatis. Long. 7 mm. Tonkin. — Voisin de binhanus Pic , antennes différents, thorax plus robuste, à sillon plus large.’ No type specimens of this taxon were found in the Pic collection at MNHN, and no specimens that would match the above description could be detected in the studied material.