Platysoma gracile

Platysoma gracile
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Staphyliniformia
Family:	Histeridae
Subfamily:	Histerinae
Tribe:	Platysomatini
Genus:	Platysoma
Species:	P. gracile
Binomial name
Platysoma gracile J. E. LeConte, 1845

Platysoma gracile is a species of clown beetle in the family Histeridae. ^{[1] [2]} It is found in North America. ^[2]

References

1. "Platysoma gracile Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
2. "Platysoma gracile Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 February 2018.

• Bousquet, Yves, and Serge Laplante (2006). "Coleoptera Histeridae". The Insects and Arachnids of Canada, part 24, xiii + 485.
• Mazur, Slawomir (1999). "Preliminary studies upon the Platysoma complex (Col. Histeridae)". Annals of Warsaw Agricultural University-SGGW, Forestry and Wood Technology, no. 49, 3-29.

Further reading

• Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN   978-0-8493-0954-0.
• Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN   978-0-8493-0212-1.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.