Platypus australis

Platypus australis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Genus: Platypus
Species: P. australis
Binomial name
Platypus australis
Chapuis, 1865

Platypus australis, commonly known as the polyphagous pinhole borer, is a species of ambrosia beetle in the weevil family Curculionidae found in Australia. It only eats superficial layers of wood, hence the damage is trivial.[1]

References

  1. "Wood borers you should know". Museum Victoria website. Museum Victoria. Retrieved 30 August 2010.


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