Platyceroides

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Scarabaeiformia
Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Lucanidae
Subfamilia: Lucaninae
Tribus: Platyceroidini
Genus: Platyceroides
Subgenera: P. (Platyceroides) – P. (Platyceropsis) – P. (Praocerus) –
Species (16): P. aeneus – P. agassii – P. barrae – P. californicus – P. infernus – P. keeni – P. laticollis – P. latus – P. marshalli – P. opacus – P. pacificus – P. pampinatus – P. potax – P. thoracicus – P. umpquus – P. viriditinctus
Name

Platyceroides Benesh, 1946
Synonyms

Platyceroides Benesh, 1946: 175–176. Type species: Platycerus agassii LeConte, 1861, by original designation.

References

Benesh, B. 1946: A systematic revision of the Holarctic genus Platycerus Geoffroy (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 63: 139–202, plates IV-IX. JSTOR
Paulsen, M.J. 2017. Correction of existing generic and species concepts in Platyceroidini (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae) and the description of four new species of Platyceroides Benesh. Zootaxa 4269(3): 346–378. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4269.3.2. Reference page.

Links

Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles
ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus

Platyceroides is a genus of stag beetles in the family Lucanidae. There are about 16 described species in Platyceroides.[1][2][3]
Species

These 16 species belong to the genus Platyceroides:

Platyceroides aeneus (Van Dyke, 1928)
Platyceroides agassii (LeConte, 1861)
Platyceroides barrae Paulsen, 2017
Platyceroides californicus (Casey, 1885)
Platyceroides infernus Paulsen, 2017
Platyceroides keeni (Casey, 1895)
Platyceroides laticollis (Casey, 1914)
Platyceroides latus (Fall, 1901)
Platyceroides marshalli Paulsen, 2015
Platyceroides opacus (Fall, 1906)
Platyceroides pacificus (Casey, 1889)
Platyceroides pampinatus Paulsen, 2017
Platyceroides potax Paulsen, 2014
Platyceroides thoracicus (Casey, 1895)
Platyceroides umpquus Paulsen, 2017
Platyceroides viriditinctus (Benesh, 1942)

References

"Platyceroides Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"Platyceroides". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

"Platyceroides genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading

Paulsen, M. J. (2013). "Annotated checklist of the New World Lucanidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea)". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
Ratcliffe, Brett; Jameson, Mary Liz. "Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles". Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2006). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.