Platysoma

Platysoma is a genus of clown beetles in the family Histeridae. There are at least 60 described species in Platysoma.[1][2]

Platysoma
Platysoma compressum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Histeridae
Subfamily:
Histerinae
Genus:
Platysoma

Leach, 1817

Species
  • Platysoma abyssinicum Lewis, 1885
  • Platysoma aequum (J. L. LeConte, 1863)
  • Platysoma afghanum (Kryzhanovskij, 1980)
  • Platysoma anceps (Schmidt, 1892)
  • Platysoma angustatum (Hoffmann, 1803)
  • Platysoma asiatica Lewis, 1892
  • Platysoma attenuatum J. E. LeConte, 1844
  • Platysoma aurelianum (Horn, 1873)
  • Platysoma aureoliferum Marseul, 1864
  • Platysoma baliolum Lewis, 1889
  • Platysoma basale J. L. LeConte, 1862
  • Platysoma beybienkoi Kryzhanovskij, 1972
  • Platysoma bifoveolatum (Bousquet and Laplante, 1999)
  • Platysoma bimaculatum Mazur, 1990
  • Platysoma brahmani Lewis, 1910
  • Platysoma chinense Lewis, 1894
  • Platysoma clarenciae Marseul, 1870
  • Platysoma coarctatum J. E. LeConte, 1844
  • Platysoma compressum (Herbst, 1783)
  • Platysoma conditum Marseul, 1864
  • Platysoma coomani Thérond, 1955
  • Platysoma cornix Marseul, 1861
  • Platysoma cylindricum (Paykull, 1811)
  • Platysoma debile Marseul, 1864
  • Platysoma deficiens (Casey, 1924)
  • Platysoma deplanatum (Gyllenhal, 1808)
  • Platysoma directum Lewis, 1885
  • Platysoma dufali Marseul, 1864
  • Platysoma elongatum (Thunberg, 1787)
  • Platysoma feles Marseul, 1864
  • Platysoma filiforme Erichson, 1834
  • Platysoma gemellum (Cooman, 1929)
  • Platysoma germanum Lewis, 1907
  • Platysoma gracile J. E. LeConte, 1845
  • Platysoma ineditum (Desbordes, 1925)
  • Platysoma inexpectatum Lackner, 2004
  • Platysoma joliveti Gomy, 2007
  • Platysoma koreanum Mazur, 1999
  • Platysoma leconti Marseul, 1853
  • Platysoma lineare Erichson, 1834
  • Platysoma lineicolle Marseul, 1873
  • Platysoma loriae Schmidt, 1893
  • Platysoma malignum Cooman, 1941
  • Platysoma minax Mazur, 1999
  • Platysoma moluccanum Marseul, 1864
  • Platysoma multistriatum Lea, 1925
  • Platysoma novum Lewis, 1885
  • Platysoma orientale (Lewis, 1892)
  • Platysoma parallelum (Say, 1825)
  • Platysoma paugami (Le Guillou, 1844)
  • Platysoma punctigerum (J. L. LeConte, 1862)
  • Platysoma raffrayi Desbordes, 1929
  • Platysoma rasile Lewis, 1884
  • Platysoma rimarium Erichson, 1834
  • Platysoma rufopygum Lewis, 1905
  • Platysoma ruptistriatum Lewis, 1904
  • Platysoma sichuanum Mazur, 2007
  • Platysoma striatipectum Marseul, 1870
  • Platysoma striatisternum Lewis, 1892
  • Platysoma striativarium Lea, 1925
  • Platysoma striativentre Lea, 1925
  • Platysoma subcostatum Lea, 1925
  • Platysoma subdepressum MacLeay, 1871
  • Platysoma suturistrium Marseul, 1879
  • Platysoma takehikoi Ôhara, 1986
  • Platysoma torpens Marseul, 1864
  • Platysoma tsushimae Ôhara, 1986
  • Platysoma vulsum Bickhardt, 1920
  • Platysoma yunnanum (Kryzhanovskij, 1972)

References
  1. "Platysoma Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  2. "Platysoma Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  • Mazur, Slawomir (1997). "A world catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea)". Genus, International Journal of Invertebrate Taxonomy (Supplement), 373.
  • Ôhara, Masahiro, and Slawomir Mazur (2002). "A revision of the genera of the tribe Platysomatini (Coleoptera, Histeridae, Histerinae). Part 4: Redescriptions of the type species of Heudister, Platysoma, Cylister, Cylistus, Nicotikis, Mesostrix and Desbordesia". Insecta Matsumurana (N.S.), vol. 59, 1-28.

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.
  • Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.


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