Platypus dentipennis (Schedl, 1964) (a species of weevil)
Basis for Tasmanian occurrence
TMAG collecctions
Classification
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Curculionoidea
Family: Curculionidae
Subfamily: Platypodinae
Tribe: Platypodini
Morphology
Typical length (mm): 5
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
Ecology
Assumed larval feeding: wood-feeder
Association with dead wood or old trees: obligately saproxylic
