Platydema is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are at least 60 described species in Platydema.[1][2][3][4][5]
| Platydema | |
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| Platydema ellipticum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Tenebrionidae |
| Tribe: | Diaperini |
| Genus: | Platydema Laporte & Brullé, 1831 |
Species edit
These 67 species belong to the genus Platydema:
- Platydema alticorne Gravely, 1915 g
- Platydema americanum Laporte & Brullé, 1831 g b
- Platydema aurimaculatum Gravely, 1915 g
- Platydema bimaculatum Champion, 1886 g
- Platydema coeruleum Gebien, 1925 g
- Platydema cruentum (Perty, 1830) g
- Platydema cruentatum Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831 g
- Platydema dejeanii Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831 g
- Platydema ellipticum (Fabricius, 1798) g b
- Platydema endoi Masumoto, 1984 g
- Platydema erythrocera b
- Platydema europaeum Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831 g
- Platydema excavatum (Say, 1824) g b
- Platydema flavipes (Fabricius, 1801) b
- Platydema flavopictum Gebien, 1913 g
- Platydema fumosum g
- Platydema guatemalense Champion, 1886 g
- Platydema haemorrhoidale Gebien, 1913 g
- Platydema inquilinum b
- Platydema irradians (Chevrolat, 1877) g
- Platydema laevipes Haldeman, 1848 b
- Platydema lebomicum Schawaller, 2004 g
- Platydema marseuli Lewis, 1894 g
- Platydema micans Horn, 1870 b
- Platydema monoceros Gebien, 1925 g
- Platydema neglectum Triplehorn, 1965 g
- Platydema nigratum b
- Platydema nigricorne Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831 g
- Platydema nigrifrons Chevrolat, 1878 g
- Platydema notatum Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831 g
- Platydema obscurum Sharp, 1885 i c g
- Platydema oregonense LeConte, 1857 g b
- Platydema pallidicolle (Lewis, 1894) g
- Platydema parachalceum Masumoto, 1982 g
- Platydema picilabrum Melsheimer, 1846 b
- Platydema picipes Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831 g
- Platydema pictum (Fauvel, 1904) g
- Platydema quindecimmaculatum Chevrolat, 1878 g
- Platydema raharizoninai Ardoin, 1966 g
- Platydema rubropictum Chevrolat, 1878 g
- Platydema ruficolle b
- Platydema ruficorne (Sturm, 1826) g b
- Platydema sakishimense Nakane, 1973 g
- Platydema sauteri Gebien, 1913 g
- Platydema sawadai Masumoto, 1991 g
- Platydema sexmaculatum Chevrolat, 1878 g
- Platydema sexnotatum b
- Platydema silphoides Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831 g
- Platydema striatum (Montrouzier, 1860) g
- Platydema subcostatum Laporte & Brullé, 1831 g b
- Platydema subfasciatum (Walker, 1858) g
- Platydema sulcipenne Gebien, 1925 g
- Platydema tahitiense Kaszab, 1985 g
- Platydema takeii Nakane, 1956 g
- Platydema teleops Triplehorn, 1965 g b
- Platydema terusane Masumoto, 1984 g
- Platydema tibiale Chevrolat, 1878 g
- Platydema toyamai Masumoto & al., 2013 g
- Platydema transversum Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831 g
- Platydema triste Laporte de Castelnau & Brulle, 1831 g
- Platydema tuchinlonoi Masumoto, 1982 g
- Platydema varians Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831 g
- Platydema violaceum (Fabricius, 1790) g
- Platydema wandae Triplehorn, 1965 b
- Platydema yangmingense Masumoto, 1982 g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]
References edit
- ^ a b "Platydema Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ a b "Browse Platydema". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ a b "Platydema". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ a b "Platydema Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ "Platydema Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
Further reading edit
- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
- Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
- Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
- Bousquet, Y.; Thomas, D.B.; Bouchard, P.; Smith, A.D.; et al. (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America". ZooKeys (728): 1–455. doi:10.3897/zookeys.728.20602. PMC 5799738. PMID 29416389.
- LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
- White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.
External links edit
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