Platydema

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
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: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Tenebrionidae
Subfamilia: Diaperinae
Tribus: Platydemini
Genus: Platydema
Species: P. alticornis – P. amamiense – P. andoi – P. aurimaculatum – P. bacanicum – P. becvari – P. biroi – P. bocaki – P. brahma – P. brunnea – P. caesifrons – P. capreolum – P. cardamonicum – P. castaneoides – P. castaneum – P. celatum – P. coeruleum – P. confusum – P. cyclopsicum – P. dejeanii – P. denticapitis – P. detersum – P. djuremnaicum – P. endoi – P. europaeum – P. flavopictum – P. formosanum – P. fumosum – P. furcaticorne – P. ganesha – P. globigerum – P. guangxicum – P. haemorrhoidale – P. halmahericum – P. hastatum – P. higonium – P. jacobsoni – P. kaiense – P. kawaii – P. kochi – P. koreanum – P. kovaci – P. krishna – P. kulzerianum – P. kurama – P. loebli – P. lynceum – P. marseuli – P. masumotoi – P. merkli – P. mindanaoicum – P. nigroaeneum – P. nigropictum – P. novaeguineensis – P. omoto – P. pallidicolle – P. palungicum – P. papuanum – P. parachalceum – P. pentaphylloides – P. planicorne – P. planum – P. poringicum – P. pseudofuligineum – P. recticorne – P. rectum – P. reibnitzi – P. reitteri – P. riedeli – P. sakishimense – P. satoi – P. sauteri – P. sawadai – P. semimetallicum – P. seramicum – P. sericeum – P. simbangense – P. skalei – P. striolatum – P. subfascia – P. sulawesicum – P. sylvestre – P. takeii – P. terusane – P. tricuspis – P. triste – P. tuchinlongi – P. umbratum – P. ussurianum – P. violaceum – P. wamenaicum – P. weigeli – P. waterhousei – P. yaeyama – P. yangmingense – P. yunnanicum
Name

Platydema Castelnau & Brullé, 1831

Type species: Platydema dejeanii Laporte & Brullé, 1831
Synonymy

Anisocara Gebien, 1925 (synonymized by Schawaller, 2004: 1)

References

Akita, K. 2011: New or little-known tenebrionid species (Coleoptera) from Japan (10) Four new species and a new distribution record from Japan. In: Kawai, S. (ed.) Masumushi: entomological papers dedicated to Dr. Kimio Masumoto on the occasion of his retirement. [Special publication of the Japanese Society of Scarabaeoidology], (1 ): 271–284. [Publication date: '25 April 2011', sourced from title page of book] [not seen]
Grimm, R. 2010: New and little known species of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) from Borneo. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde (A) (n.s.), 3: 257–267.
Huang, W-j.; Ren, G-d. 2009: The Chinese species of the genus Platydema Laporte et Brullé (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) with description of a new species. Acta zootaxonomica sinica, 34: 428–434.
Kadowaki, K. 2010: Species coexistence patterns in a mycophagous insect community inhabiting the wood-decaying bracket fungus Cryptoporus volvatus (Polyporaceae: Basidiomycota). European journal of entomology, 107: 89–99. ISSN: 1210-5759 (print), 1802-8829 (online) Abstract
Leschen, R.A.B.; Lawrence, J.F.; Kuschel, G.; Thorpe, S.; Wang, Q. 2003: Coleoptera genera of New Zealand. New Zealand entomologist, 26: 15–28. PDF
Masumoto, K. 1991: Two New Tenebrionid Species (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) fromJapan. Elytra 19(1): 25-29. Reference page.
Schawaller, W. 2003: The genus Platydema Laporte & Brullé in the Himalaya and adjacent regions, with descriptions of five new species (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). In: Hartmann, M. & Baumbach, H. (Hrsg.): Biodiversität und Naturausstattung im Himalaya, S. 269-277, Taf. IV-V; Erfurt (Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Naturkundemuseums)
Schawaller, W. 2004: The genus Platydema Laporte & Brullé in Africa south of the Sahara and adjacent islands (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 41: 1–27. Reference page.
Schawaller, W. 2004a: The Oriental species of Platydema Laporte & Brullé, with descriptions of 16 new species (Co- leoptera: Tenebrionidae). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde (A) 671: 1–49. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Schawaller, W. 2008: The genus Laena Latreille (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in China (part 2), with descriptions of 30 new species and a new identification key. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde (A) 1: 387–411. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Schawaller, W. 2012: The Oriental species of Platydema Laporte & Brullé, part 2, with descriptions of 11 new species (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Diaperinae). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde (A) (n.s.), 5: 243–255. PDF