Platydema

Platydema
Platydema ellipticum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Tenebrionidae
Tribe:	Diaperini
Genus:	Platydema Laporte & Brullé, 1831

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 subcostatum

Species

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

1. "Platydema Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
2. "Browse Platydema". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
3. "Platydema". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
4. "Platydema Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
5. "Platydema Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.

Further reading

• 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

• Media related to Platydema at Wikimedia Commons