Belongs within: Dryophthoridae.
The Platypodinae, ambrosia beetles, are a family of beetles in which the majority of species feed on fungi growing in the tunnels they bore in dead wood. The Australian species Austroplatypus incompertus is eusocial, forming multi-generational colonies with a single breeding female tended by non-breeding workers (Bouchard 2014). Members of the tribe Tesserocerini retain a distinct galea and lacinia on the maxilla whereas these elements are fused in the Platypodini.
<==Platypodinae [Platypodidae]
|--Tesserocerini GC-P14
| |--Tesserocerus insignis W86
| `--Diapus GC-P14
| |--D. furtivus RD77
| `--D. unispineus GC-P14
`--Platypodini B14
|--Austroplatypus incompertus (Schedl 1968) B14
`--Platypus Herbst 1793 M94
|--*P. cylindrus M94 [=Bostrichus cylindrus M94, Hylurgus (Platypus) cylindricus G20]
|--P. apicalis M94
|--P. australis Chapuis 1865 M94
|--P. caliculus B88
|--P. caviceps M94
|--P. compositus M94
|--P. crenatus Chap. 1866 M87
|--P. geminatus Chap. 1866 M87
|--P. gracilis M94
|--P. parallelus Chapuis 1865 M94
|--P. solidus Z94
|--P. subgranosus LB91
`--P. sulcatus M94
Platypodinae incertae sedis:
Chaetastus tuberculatus W86
Periommatus bispinus W86
Scolytotarsus W86
Crossotarsus M94
|--C. barbatus B88
|--C. kuntzeni B88
`--C. omnivorus LB91
Doliopygus M94
|--D. chapuisi W86
`--D. dubius M94
Trachyostus aterrimus M94
Megaplatypus mutatus ML05
Mitosoma chapuisi R13
Spathidicerus thomsoni R13
*Type species of generic name indicated
REFERENCES
[B88] Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera): A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International: Wallingford (UK).
[B14] Bouchard, P. (ed.) 2014. The Book of Beetles: A lifesize guide to six hundred of nature's gems. Ivy Press: Lewes (United Kingdom).
[GC-P14] Gillett, C. P. D. T., A. Crampton-Platt, M. J. T. N. Timmermans, B. H. Jordal, B. C. Emerson & A. P. Vogler. 2014. Bulk de novo mitogenome assembly from pooled total DNA elucidates the phylogeny of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). Molecular Biology and Evolution 31 (8): 2223–2237.
[G20] Goldfuss, G. A. 1820. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte vol. 3. Handbuch der Zoologie pt 1. Johann Leonhard Schrag: Nürnberg.
[LB91] Lawrence, J. F., & E. B. Britton. 1991. Coleoptera (beetles). In: CSIRO. The Insects of Australia: A textbook for students and research workers 2nd ed. vol. 2 pp. 543–683. Melbourne University Press: Carlton (Victoria).
[ML05] Marvaldi, A. E., & A. A. Lanteri. 2005. Key to higher taxa of South American weevils based on adult characters (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea). Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 78: 65–87.
[M87] Masters, G. 1887. Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of Australia. Part VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, series 2, 1 (4): 979–1036.
[M94] May, B. M. 1994. An introduction to the immature stages of Australian Curculionoidea. In: Zimmerman, E. C. Australian Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) vol. 2. Brentidae, Eurhynchidae, Apionidae and a chapter on immature stages by Brenda May pp. 365–728. CSIRO Australia.
[R13] Reuter, O. M. 1913. Lebensgewohnheiten und Instinkte der Insekten bis zum Erwachen der sozialen Instinkte. R. Friedländer & Sohn: Berlin.
[RD77] Richards, O. W., & R. G. Davies. 1977. Imms' General Textbook of Entomology 10th ed. vol. 2. Classification and Biology. Chapman and Hall: London.
[W86] Wood, S. L. 1986. A reclassification of the genera of Scolytidae (Coleoptera). Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 10: 1–126.
[Z94] Zimmerman, E. C. 1994. Australian Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) vol. 2. Brentidae, Eurhynchidae, Apionidae and a chapter on immature stages by Brenda May. CSIRO Australia.
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