Review of South African Euryphyminae Author Tshililo, Precious text Zootaxa 2020 2020-07-27 4820 1 70 104 journal article 8903 10.11646/zootaxa.4820.1.4 1be5ef5e-087c-4f67-b4bc-257602ef0842 1175-5326 4397315 801F6659-0253-4141-946B-6860FB517F69 Platacanthoides morusus ( Walker, 1870 ) Platacanthus morosus : Walker, 1870:714 . Platacanthoides morusus : Uvarov, 1922:154 ; Johnston, 1956:428 ; Dirsh, 1956:121–272; Dirsh, 1965:261 ; Johnston, 1968:193 . Type locality. Africa , Southern Africa . Material. No material examined. Distribution. This species has only been recorded from South Africa . Remarks. This genus was erected by Kirby (1910) . Uvarov (1922) re-described the genus based partly on Platacanthoides bituberculatus ( Uvarov 1922 ) . The genus has three described species of which one has a two subspecies: P . reductus Dirsh 1956 and P . morosus Walker 1870 and two subspecies of bituberculatus : bituberculatus Uvarov 1922 and bituberculatus attenuatus Uvarov 1922 all of which have records of distribution in South Africa . P . morusus was originally described based on one female specimen by Walker (1870 ) , this is very unreliable since female specimens are difficult to assign to conspecific male. I collected several specimens of Platacanthoides bituberculatus in the field but had no other specimens to compare with.