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Male. Body medium-sized, dark brown; head, prothorax, mesoscutellum and basal three fifths of elytra orange; antennae, legs, apical two fifths of elytra dark brown to black (Fig. 7). Head small, including eyes narrower than frontal margin of pronotum. Eyes hemispherically prominent, eye diameter 2.2 times frontal interocular distance. Antennae slender, compressed, reaching two thirds of elytral length, antennomere 3 0.9 times antennomere 2. Head and antennae with dense, short, pubescence. Pronotum flat, 1.1 times wider than long at midline. Anterior margin widely rounded, anterior angles inconspicuous, posterior margin bisinuate (Fig. 20). Elytra almost parallel-sided, 3.5 times longer than width at humeri; slightly widened posteriorly, widest at apical fourth. Elytral costae inconspicuous. Legs compressed, densely pubescent. Male genitalia with short rounded parameres bearing slender membranous process. Phallus curved, phallobase wide, widely emarginate (Figs 60–61). Female larva. Body flat, wide (Fig. 32), pronotum triangular, with two glabrous rounded tubercles postero-laterally, another two tubercles in middle of anterior margin; mesothorax strongly transverse, with rounded lateral margins and weakly projected posterior angles, laterally with four tubercles, upper rounded, lower transverse, metathorax similar in shape with more acutely projected posterior margins. Abdominal segments with slender and long lateral processes.
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Masek M, Bocak L (2014) The taxonomy and diversity of Platerodrilus (Coleoptera, Lycidae) inferred from molecular data and morphology of adults and larvae ZooKeys 426: 29–63
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Ladislav Bocak
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Indonesia: Sumatra.
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Michal Masek, Ladislav Bocak
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Masek M, Bocak L (2014) The taxonomy and diversity of Platerodrilus (Coleoptera, Lycidae) inferred from molecular data and morphology of adults and larvae ZooKeys 426: 29–63
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Michal Masek
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Ladislav Bocak
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