HOLOTYPE [South Africa:] Natal, Port Natal [Durban] (ex coll. Gueinzius) [NHMUK].
Taxonomic Notes:
Transferred to Polyptychus by Butler, 1876, Trans. zool. Soc. Lond. 9: 584. Transferred to Polyptychoides by Carcasson, 1968, Jl E. Afr. nat. Hist. Soc. natn. Mus. 26 (3): 22. Returned to Polyptychus (by implicit synonymy of Polyptychoides) by Pierre, 2001, Bull Soc. ent. Fr. 106: 263. Implicitly returned to Polyptychoides (as ‡grayi [sic]) 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
