Platycholeus

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Platycholeus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Leiodidae
Subfamily: Cholevinae
Genus: Platycholeus
Horn, 1880

Platycholeus is a genus of small carrion beetles in the family Leiodidae. There are at least two described species in Platycholeus. [1] [2] [3]

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Species

These two species belong to the genus Platycholeus:

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References

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  1. "Platycholeus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  2. "Platycholeus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  3. Kilian, Aleksandra; Newton, Alfred F. (2017). "Morphology of the immature stages of Platycholeus Horn, 1880 (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Leptodirini)". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 266: 158–168. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2016.11.007 via ResearchGate.

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