Platynini

Platynini is a tribe of ground beetles in the family Carabidae. There are at least 260 described species in Platynini.[1][2]

Platynus ovipennis

Platynini
Sericoda quadripunctata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Carabidae
Subfamily:	Harpalinae
Tribe:	Platynini

Genera

• Agonum Bonelli, 1810
• Anchomenus Bonelli, 1810
• Blackburnia Sharp, 1878
• Colpodes MacLeay, 1825
• Elliptoleus Bates, 1882
• Metacolpodes Jeannel, 1948
• Mexisphodrus Barr, 1965
• Olisthopus Dejean, 1828
• Oxypselaphus Chaudoir, 1843
• Paranchus Lindroth, 1974
• Platynus Bonelli, 1810
• Rhadine LeConte, 1846
• Sericoda Kirby, 1837
• Tanystoma Motschulsky, 1845
• Tetraleucus Casey, 1920

References

1. "Platynini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
2. "Platynini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.

• Bouchard, P., Y. Bousquet, A. Davies, M. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. Lawrence, C. Lyal, A. Newton, et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys, vol. 88, 1-972.
• Bousquet, Yves (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys, issue 245, 1-1722.
• Bousquet, Yves, and André Larochelle (1993). "Catalogue of the Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Trachypachidae, Rhysodidae, Carabidae including Cicindelini) of America North of Mexico". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, no. 167, 397.

Further reading

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Platynini
• Arnett, R. H. Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). (21 December 2000) American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida. ISBN 978-0-8493-1925-9
• 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.