Plateros ater Pic, 1931

Kazantsev, S. V., 2021, A review of Plateros Bourgeois, 1879 of Indochina (Coleoptera: Lycidae), Russian Entomological Journal 30 (1), pp. 47-73 : 51

Plateros ater Pic, 1931

Plateros ater Pic, 1931: 97 .

DISTRIBUTION. Northern Vietnam: Hoa Binh.

REMARKS. Pic´s [1931] description reads as follows: ‘ Angustatus, subnitidus, griseo pubescens, ater , capite antice flavo; capite lato, oculis plus male minusve female prominulis; antennis pilosis, gracilibus, filiformibus, apice attenuatis, in mare longioribus; thorace breve, sat lato, antice subarcuato, et paulo testaceo marginato, lateraliter fere recto, angulis posticis prominulis, antice granuloso, postice medio sulcato-areolato, lateraliter late imresso; elytris thorace paulo latioribus, parallelis, longissimis, multi costulatis, apice breve attenuatis. Long. 5 mill. Hoa-Binh. — Ressemble à Coomani Pic et s´en distingue facilement par sa coloration foncée.’ 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. As Plateros coomani Pic, 1925 , to which this species was compared, in fact belongs in the genus Dihammatus Waterhouse, 1879 [ Kazantsev, 1993], there is a possibility that Plateros ater is also a Dihammatus .