Platyscelis

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: Platyscelis
Subgenera: P. (Oblongoplatyscelis) – P. (Paraplatyscelis) – P. (Platyscelis) – P. (Pleiopleura)
Overview of species

P. amdoensis – P. angusticollis – P. ballioni – P. bogatshevi – P. brevis – P. confusa – P. freyi – P. ganglbaueri – P. gebieni – P. hungarica – P. hypolitha – P. ketmeniana – P. kirghisica – P. obovata – P. ovata – P. platytarsis – P. rugifrons – P. sinuata – P. striata – P. subcordata – P. suiyuana

Name

Platyscelis Latreille, 1818

Type species: Tenebrio hypolithus Pallas, 1781, by subsequent designation (Guérin, 1828 :41)
Synonyms

Kaszaboscelis Löbl et Merkl, 2003

References

Egorov, L.V. 2004. [The classification of tenebrionid beetles of the tribe Platyscelidini (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) of the World fauna.] Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 83(3): 581–613. [In Russian, English translation in Entomological review 84(6): 1641–1666. (2004) Full article (PDF).] Reference page.