Platypus seminitens Schedl 1971

Platypus seminitens Schedl

Platypus seminitens Schedl, 1971: 395.

Baiocis seminitens (Schedl): Schedl 1972: 143.

Taxonomy: The senior author has examined the holotype male and allotype female (NMW), which are the only recorded specimens. This species was transferred to Baiocis by Schedl (1972) without comment, and has to be returned to Platypus. The femoral grooves of the pronotum are angulate posteriorly, not anteriorly, and there is no carina or tubercle on the metanepisternum. Schedl (1971) failed to mention in his description of the male, the unique modifications of the first and second ventrites. The first ventrite has a prominent median ridge which lies between the vertical posterior surfaces of the hind coxae. To each side of this, the ventrite is gradually raised (as seen from below) to form a bluntly tipped process lying about halfway between the midline and the lateral margin of the ventrite. Laterally to this process, the ventrite is strongly constricted anteroposteriorly, then gradually widens anteroposteriorly towards the lateral margin. The second ventrite is fairly narrow in the median half, but much wider laterally due to the constriction of the first ventrite. It has a weakly raised hump on each side behind the process on the first ventrite. The third and fourth ventrites are normal, the fifth is coarsely punctured. The species possibly belongs in the group of species related to Platypus lunifer Schedl.

Distribution: India (no details).

Biology: Unknown.