Genus Platysoma

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited

histerid from under bark of a downed River Birch limb - Platysoma leconti

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)

Superfamily Hydrophiloidea

Family Histeridae (Clown Beetles)

Subfamily Histerinae

Tribe Platysomatini

Genus Platysoma

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eblisia (=Eurylister) used to be treated as a subgenus of Platysoma

Explanation of Names

Platysoma Leach 1817

Numbers

3 subgenera, with 13 spp. in our area(1) and >60 spp. total

Range

most of NA(1) and the world

Habitat

under bark(1)

Food

Diptera and Coleoptera larvae(1)

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 6 December, 2005 - 6:03pm
Additional contributions by McClarinJ, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 8 September, 2023 - 6:37pm

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