HOLOTYPE ♀ White Nile [Sudan]: lat. 12°11'«N» (Capt. Yardley) [NHMUK].
Taxonomic Notes:
Proposed as a subspecies of Polyptychus grayi [sic]. Raised to species status by Pierre, 1989, Revue fr. Ent. (N.S.) 11: 124. 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: 24. 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
