Platysoma

Platysoma
Platysoma compressum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Histeridae
Subfamily:	Histerinae
Genus:	Platysoma Leach, 1817
Synonyms
Cylister de Cooman, 1941

Platysoma is a genus of clown beetles in the family Histeridae. There are at least 60 described species in Platysoma.

Species

• Platysoma abyssinicum Lewis, 1885
• Platysoma aequum (J. L. LeConte, 1863)
• Platysoma afghanum (Kryzhanovskij, 1980)
• Platysoma anceps (Schmidt, 1892)
• Platysoma angustatum (Hoffmann, 1803)
• Platysoma asiatica Lewis, 1892
• Platysoma attenuatum J. E. LeConte, 1844
• Platysoma aurelianum (Horn, 1873)
• Platysoma aureoliferum Marseul, 1864
• Platysoma baliolum Lewis, 1889
• Platysoma basale J. L. LeConte, 1862
• Platysoma beybienkoi Kryzhanovskij, 1972
• Platysoma bifoveolatum (Bousquet and Laplante, 1999)
• Platysoma bimaculatum Mazur, 1990
• Platysoma brahmani Lewis, 1910
• Platysoma chinense Lewis, 1894
• Platysoma clarenciae Marseul, 1870
• Platysoma coarctatum J. E. LeConte, 1844
• Platysoma compressum (Herbst, 1783)
• Platysoma conditum Marseul, 1864
• Platysoma coomani Thérond, 1955
• Platysoma cornix Marseul, 1861
• Platysoma cylindricum (Paykull, 1811)
• Platysoma debile Marseul, 1864
• Platysoma deficiens (Casey, 1924)
• Platysoma deplanatum (Gyllenhal, 1808)
• Platysoma directum Lewis, 1885
• Platysoma dufali Marseul, 1864
• Platysoma elongatum (Thunberg, 1787)
• Platysoma feles Marseul, 1864
• Platysoma filiforme Erichson, 1834
• Platysoma gemellum (Cooman, 1929)
• Platysoma germanum Lewis, 1907
• Platysoma gracile J. E. LeConte, 1845
• Platysoma ineditum (Desbordes, 1925)
• Platysoma inexpectatum Lackner, 2004
• Platysoma joliveti Gomy, 2007
• Platysoma koreanum Mazur, 1999
• Platysoma leconti Marseul, 1853
• Platysoma lineare Erichson, 1834
• Platysoma lineicolle Marseul, 1873
• Platysoma loriae Schmidt, 1893
• Platysoma malignum Cooman, 1941
• Platysoma minax Mazur, 1999
• Platysoma moluccanum Marseul, 1864
• Platysoma multistriatum Lea, 1925
• Platysoma novum Lewis, 1885
• Platysoma orientale (Lewis, 1892)
• Platysoma parallelum (Say, 1825)
• Platysoma paugami (Le Guillou, 1844)
• Platysoma punctigerum (J. L. LeConte, 1862)
• Platysoma raffrayi Desbordes, 1929
• Platysoma rasile Lewis, 1884
• Platysoma rimarium Erichson, 1834
• Platysoma rufopygum Lewis, 1905
• Platysoma ruptistriatum Lewis, 1904
• Platysoma sichuanum Mazur, 2007
• Platysoma striatipectum Marseul, 1870
• Platysoma striatisternum Lewis, 1892
• Platysoma striativarium Lea, 1925
• Platysoma striativentre Lea, 1925
• Platysoma subcostatum Lea, 1925
• Platysoma subdepressum MacLeay, 1871
• Platysoma suturistrium Marseul, 1879
• Platysoma takehikoi Ôhara, 1986
• Platysoma torpens Marseul, 1864
• Platysoma tsushimae Ôhara, 1986
• Platysoma vulsum Bickhardt, 1920
• Platysoma yunnanum (Kryzhanovskij, 1972)

References

• Mazur, Slawomir (1997). "A world catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea)". Genus, International Journal of Invertebrate Taxonomy (Supplement), 373.
• Ôhara, Masahiro, and Slawomir Mazur (2002). "A revision of the genera of the tribe Platysomatini (Coleoptera, Histeridae, Histerinae). Part 4: Redescriptions of the type species of Heudister, Platysoma, Cylister, Cylistus, Nicotikis, Mesostrix and Desbordesia". Insecta Matsumurana (N.S.), vol. 59, 1-28.

Further reading

• Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.