Holotype ♀ German S.W. Africa [Namibia]: Rietfontein, iii.1897 (Borchmann) [MNHU].
Taxonomic Notes:
Proposed as a subspecies of Polyptychus grayi [sic]. Raised to species status by Rothschild & Jordan, 1916, Novit. zool. 23: 257. Resynonymized with Polyptychus grayi [sic] by Kernbach, 1957, Rev. Zool. Bot. afr. 55: 185. Transferred (as Polyptychus grayi [sic] assimilis) to Polyptychoides by Carcasson, 1968, Jl E. Afr. nat. Hist. Soc. natn. Mus. 26 (3): 23. Returned to Polyptychus (by implicit synonymy of Polyptychoides) by Pierre, 2001, Bull Soc. ent. Fr. 106: 263. Implicitly returned to Polyptychoides by Darge, 2004, Bull Soc. ent. Mulhouse. 60: 22. Returned to Polyptychus (by implicit synonymy of Polyptychoides) by Pierre, 2014, Bull Soc. ent. Fr. 119: 226.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
