Platystethus

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: Oxytelinae
Tribus: Oxytelini
Genus: Platystethus
Subgenera: Craetopycrus

Species overview: P. afghanicus – P. akkumus – P. aktogaicus – P. alutaceus – P. americanus – P. archetypus – P. arenarius – P. argus – P. armatus – P. belousovae – P. brevipennis – P. bucerus – P. burlei – P. cameroni – P. capito – P. carcareus – P. cassagnaui – P. cephalotes – P. corniculatus – P. cornutus – P. crassicornis – P. crassus – P. degener – P. depravatus – P. dilutipennis – P. ebneri – P. erlangshanus – P. fallax – P. forsteri – P. gildenkovi – P. japonicus – P. javanus – P. laesicollis – P. laevis – P. luae – P. malayanus – P. muelleri – P. nepalicus – P. nitens – P. nodifrons – P. nudus – P. obscurus – P. ohausi – P. oxytelinus – P. pallidipes – P. praetermissus – P. quedenfeldti – P. rufospinus – P. rugifrons – P. similis – P. spectabilis – P. spiculus – P. spinicornis – P. spinosus – P. strigosulus – P. subnitens – P. tian – P. vicinior – P. volgensis – P. zaisanicus
Name

Platystethus Mannerheim, 1830: 46

Type species: Staphylinus morsitans Paykull, 1792 (= Staphylinus arenarius Geoffroy, 1785), designated in Westwood, 1838: 17.

Synonymy

Pyctocraerus Thomson, C.G., 1859: 43
Type species: Staphylinus morsitans Paykull, 1792, fixed by original designation.

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. 46]

Additional references

Lü, L.; Zhou, H.Z. 2015: Review of the Genus: Platystethus Mannerheim (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae) in China. Zootaxa 3915(2): 151–205. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3915.2.1. Reference page.

Platystethus is a genus of spiny-legged rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are about 6 described species in Platystethus.[1][2][3]

Species

Platystethus americanus Erichson, 1840
Platystethus archetypus Scudder, 1900
Platystethus arenarius (Geoffroy, 1785)
Platystethus carcareus Scudder, 1900
Platystethus degener Mulsant & Rey, 1878
Platystethus spiculus Erichson, 1840

References

"Platystethus Genus: Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
"Platystethus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 8 February 2018.

"Platystethus Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 8 February 2018.

Further reading

Arnett, R. H., Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida.
Arnett, Ross H. (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Brunke, A; Marshall, S (2011). "Contributions to the faunistics and bionomics of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in northeastern North America: discoveries made through study of the University of Guelph Insect Collection, Ontario, Canada". ZooKeys (75): 29–68. doi:10.3897/zookeys.75.767. PMC 3088045. PMID 21594139.
Klimaszewski, J; McLean, J; Chandler, D; Savard, K; Li, A (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 2". ZooKeys (22): 19–33. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.177.
Klimaszewski, J; McLean, J; Li, A; Savard, K (2009). "Review of the rove beetle species of the subtribe Gyrophaenina Kraatz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from New Brunswick, Canada: new species, provincial records and bionomic information". ZooKeys (22): 81–170. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.219.
Klimaszewski, J; McLean, J; Li, A; Savard, K (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 1". ZooKeys (22): 5–17. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.86.