Platytomus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
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: Scarabaeiformia
Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Aphodiinae
Tribus: Psammodiini
Genus: Platytomus
Species (26): P. antipodum – P. ashantii – P. atlanticus – P. caelicollis – P. darwini – P. freudei – P. gomyi – P. gregalis – P. grisoli – P. hawaiiensis – P. indicus – P. jailensis – P. laevistriatus – P. longulus – P. micros – P. mongolicus – P. nagporensis – P. nathani – P. notialis – P. obscurior – P. pachypus – P. parvulus – P. pumilio – P. tibialis – P. variolosus – P. yadai
Name

Platytomus Mulsant, 1842

Type species:

References
Links

Schoolmeesters, P. 2017. Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (version Jul 2016). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 30th January 2017. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page. [accessed on April 17, 2017]

Platytomus is a genus of aphodiine dung beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are more than 20 described species in Platytomus.[1][2][3]

Species

These 26 species belong to the genus Platytomus:

Platytomus antipodum (Fauvel, 1903)
Platytomus ashantii (Endrödi, 1973)
Platytomus atlanticus (Cartwright, 1948)
Platytomus caelicollis (Cartwright, 1948)
Platytomus darwini (Cartwright, 1970)
Platytomus freudei (Balthasar, 1960)
Platytomus gomyi Pittino & Mariani, 1986
Platytomus gregalis (Cartwright, 1948)
Platytomus grisoli (Paulian, 1942)
Platytomus hawaiiensis (Rakovic, 1981)
Platytomus indicus (Balthasar, 1941)
Platytomus jailensis (Apostolov & Maltzev, 1986)
Platytomus laevistriatus (Perris, 1869)
Platytomus longulus (Cartwright, 1948)
Platytomus micros (Bates, 1887)
Platytomus mongolicus (Medvedev, 1974)
Platytomus nagporensis Pittino & Mariani, 1986
Platytomus nathani Pittino & Mariani, 1986
Platytomus notialis (Cartwright, 1948)
Platytomus obscurior (Blackburn, 1904)
Platytomus pachypus (Lea, 1923)
Platytomus parvulus (Chevrolat, 1864)
Platytomus pumilio (Balthasar, 1966)
Platytomus tibialis (Fabricius, 1798)
Platytomus variolosus (Kolenati, 1846)
Platytomus yadai (Ochi, Kawahara & Inagaki, 2006)

References

"Platytomus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"Platytomus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

"Platytomus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading

Mathison, Blaine A.; Hardy, Martin; Bezdek, Aleš; Schoolmeesters, Paul (2001). "A Worldwide Checklist of the Tribes and Genera of Aegialiinae, Aphodiinae, Termitotroginae, Aulonocneminae, Scarabaeinae, and Coprinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae)". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
Ratcliffe, Brett; Jameson, Mary Liz. "Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles". Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2006). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.