Platyprosopus

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
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Staphylininae
Tribus: Platyprosopini
Genus: Platyprosopus
Species: P. aequalis – P. aethiopicus – P. amazonicus – P. argentinus – P. arrowi – P. bagdadensis – P. beduinus – P. bengalensis – P. bernhaueri – P. bhutanicus – P. biblus – P. bilineatus – P. birmanus – P. biseriatus – P. bruchi – P. bucephalus – P. consularis – P. daressalamensis – P. elatus – P. elongatus – P. fraternus – P. frontalis – P. fuliginosus – P. fulvaster – P. fulvicollis – P. ghidinii – P. grandiceps – P. gridellii – P. hierichonticus – P. himalayaensis – P. indawgyianus – P. indicus – P. keiseri – P. kraatzi – P. laevicollis – P. laosianus – P. laticeps – P. latitarsalis – P. longicollis – P. major – P. marshalli – P. mateui – P. maximus – P. meghalayaensis – P. mexicanus – P. minor – P. myanmarensis – P. nigriventris – P. niloticus – P. ochraceus – P. opacifrons – P. pallescens – P. parallelus – P. punctatissimus – P. rectus – P. rossii – P. rufescens – P. ruficollis – P. similis – P. socius – P. tamulus – P. tarumaensis – P. tchadicus – P. tongyai
Name

Platyprosopus Mannerheim, 1830: 36

Type species: Platyprosopus elongatus Mannerheim, 1830 by monotypy.

Synonymy

Metopius Mannerheim, 1830: 36 (and Krynicki, 1832: 104) [not as new, attributed to Steven; unavailable, never used as valid; preoccupied, not Metopius Panzer, 1806 (Hymenoptera)]
Platyprosopus (Megaprosopus) Reitter, 1908: 104 (and Reitter, 1908: 7) [preoccupied, not Megaprosopus Macquart, 1843 (Diptera)]
Type species: Platyprosopus beduinus Nordmann, 1837, fixed by monotypy]
Megaprosopoda Strand, E., 1935: 297 [new name for Megaprosopus Reitter]

References
Primary references

Mannerheim, C.G. von 1830: Précis d'un nouvel arrangement de la famille des brachélytres de l'ordre des insectes coléopteres. St. Petersburg, Russia, privately published, 87 pp. [original description: p. 36]

Additional references

Bordoni, A. 2015. Revision of the Oriental Platyprosopus (Coleoptera Staphylinidae Platyprosopini). 255th Contribution to the knowledge of the Staphylinidae. Redia 48: 57–75. Reference page. [description, key: p. 57]