Platysomatini

Platysomatini is a tribe of clown beetles in the family Histeridae. There are at least 30 genera and 380 described species in Platysomatini.[1][2]

Platysoma moluccanum

Platysomatini
Apobletes schaumei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Histeridae
Subfamily:	Histerinae
Tribe:	Platysomatini Bickhardt, 1914

Genera

These 30 genera belong to the tribe Platysomatini:

• Afrosoma Mazur, 1999 ^{i c g}
• Althanus Lewis, 1903 ^{i c g}
• Apobletes Marseul, 1860 ^{i c g}
• Aulacosternus Marseul, 1853 ^{i c g}
• Desbordesia Mazur, 1999 ^{i c g}
• Diister Mazur, 1989 ^{i c g}
• Eblisia Lewis, 1889 ^{i c g b}
• Epuraeosoma Slipinski and Mazur, 1999 ^{i c g}
• Eurosoma Mazur and Ôhara, 2009 ^{i c g}
• Eurylister Bickhardt, 1920 ^{i c g b}
• Gomyoscelis Dégallier, 2001 ^{i c g}
• Idister Marseul, 1880 ^{i c g}
• Kanaarister Mazur, 1999 ^{i c g}
• Latinolister Mazur, 1999 ^{i c g}
• Liopygus Lewis, 1891 ^{i c g}
• Megagnathos Penati and Zhang, 2009 ^{i c g}
• Mendelius Lewis, 1908 ^{i c g}
• Mesostrix Mazur, 1994 ^{i c g}
• Microlister Lewis, 1905 ^{i c g}
• Nicotikis Marseul, 1883 ^{i c g}
• Niposoma Mazur, 1999 ^{i c g}
• Pacifister Mazur and Ôhara, 2009 ^{i c g}
• Placodes Erichson, 1834 ^{i c g}
• Placodister Bickhardt, 1918 ^{i c g}
• Plaesius Erichson, 1834 ^{i c g}
• Platylister Lewis, 1892 ^{i c g}
• Platysoma Leach, 1817 ^{i c g b}
• Sibelia Mazur and Ôhara, 2009 ^{i c}
• Silinus Lewis, 1907 ^{i c g}
• Sunilis Mazur and Ôhara, 2009 ^{i c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[3] g = GBIF,[4] b = Bugguide.net[2]

References

1. "Platysomatini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
2. "Platysomatini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
3. "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-20.
4. "GBIF". Retrieved 2018-04-20.

Further reading

• Ôhara, Masahiro; Mazur, Slawomir (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" (PDF). Insecta Matsumurana. New Series. 59: 1–28. ISSN 0020-1804.
• Majka, Christopher G. (2008). "Contributions to the knowledge of Atlantic Canadian Histeridae (Coleoptera)". ZooKeys (2): 189–202. doi:10.3897/zookeys.2.3.
• Mazur, Slawomir (2011). A Concise Catalogue of the Histeridae (Insecta: Coleoptera). WULS - SGGW Press. ISBN 978-83-7583-3171.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2015). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-29685-5.
• LeConte, J. L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.

External links

• Media related to Platysomatini at Wikimedia Commons