HOLOTYPE ♂ Tanganyika [Tanzania]: Kilimandscharo [Kilimanjaro], Moschi [Moshi] (Mauck) (ex MNHU, B. Preston Clark exchange) [CMNH]. Carcasson, 1968, Jl E. Afr. nat. Hist. Soc. natn. Mus. 26 (3): 24, incorrectly gave the type locality in the species header as "Mt. Meru, Tanganyika, ♂" and the depository information as “BM : Amani, Mt. Meru (Type)”. These may be the data of the "neallotype" female in the NHMUK, but if so, then Carcasson made a further error because the actual data on the labels attached to this specimen are: “57.30\ Meru. Dist.\ Mt. Kenya.\ Sept. 1939\ Mrs H. Young”. This specimen also bears a handwritten label stating, “Ent. Mitt. XII: 1, pp. 54, 56, fig. 1 (1923) (Moschi, Kilimanjaro) ♂” (which is a reference to the original description, not a data label, but which Carcasson may have mistaken it to be), and is ex coll. Joicey.
Taxonomic Notes:
Synonymized with Polyptychus digitatus as a subspecies by Kernbach, 1957, Rev. Zool. Bot. afr. 55: 188. Reinstated as a species and transferred to Polyptychoides by Carcasson, 1968, Jl E. Afr. nat. Hist. Soc. natn. Mus. 26 (3): 24. 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: 20. 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
