Platyscelidini

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: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Tenebrionidae
Subfamilia: Tenebrioninae
Tribus: Platyscelidini
Genus: Bioramix – Microplatyscelis – Myatis – Oodescelis – Platyscelis – Somocoelia – Somocoeloplatys – Trichomyatis
Name

Platyscelidini Lacordaire, 1859

Type genus: Platyscelis Latreille, 1818.
References

Egorov, L.V., 2004: The Classification of Tenebrionid Beetles of the Tribe Platyscelidini (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) of the World Fauna. Entomological Review 83 (3): 581–613. Abstract: PDF.
Merkl, O. & Egorov, P.V. 2015. Somocoelia triplehorni Merkl and Egorov (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), the First Species of Platyscelidini in Iran. The Coleopterists Bulletin 69(mo4): 73–77. DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.73 Reference page.

Platyscelidini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about eight genera in Platyscelidini.[1][2][3]

In research by Kamiński et al. published in 2021, Platyscelidini and six other tribes were moved from Tenebrioninae into the newly resurrected subfamily Blaptinae. These tribes contained 281 genera and about 4000 species, about 50% of Tenebrioninae. The new classification was followed by Bouchard et al. the same year.[4][2]
Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Platyscelidini:

Bioramix Bates, 1879 (the Palearctic)
Microplatyscelis Kaszab, 1940 (the Palearctic)
Myatis Bates, 1879 (the Palearctic)
Oodescelis Motschulsky, 1845 (the Palearctic)
Platyscelis Latreille, 1818 (the Palearctic)
Somocoelia Heyden & Kraatz, 1882 (the Palearctic)
Somocoeloplatys Skopin, 1968 (the Palearctic)
Trichomyatis Schuster, 1931 (the Palearctic)

References

Bousquet, Yves; Thomas, Donald B.; Bouchard, Patrice; Smith, Aaron D.; et al. (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America". ZooKeys (728): 1–455. doi:10.3897/zookeys.728.20602. PMC 5799738. PMID 29416389.
Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Aalbu, Rolf L.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2021). "Review of genus-group names in the family Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera)". ZooKeys (1050): 1–633. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1050.64217. hdl:10261/250214. PMC 8328949. PMID 34385881.
Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.

Kamiński, Marcin; Lumen, Ryan; Kanda, Kojun; Iwan, Dariusz; et al. (2021). "Reevaluation of Blapimorpha and Opatrinae: addressing a major phylogeny-classification gap in darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Blaptinae)". Systematic Entomology. 46: 140–156. doi:10.1111/syen.12453. S2CID 224888924.