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Species Platydema flavipes

Dull black beetle with light legs and dark antennae - Platydema flavipes

Platydema flavipes (Fabricius) - Platydema flavipes

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea

Family Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles)

Subfamily Diaperinae

Tribe Diaperini

Subtribe Diaperina

Genus Platydema

Species flavipes (Platydema flavipes)

Explanation of Names

Platydema flavipes (Fabricius 1801)

flavipes 'yellow foot'

Size

3.6‒5.4 mm(1)

Range

e.US (NH‒FL to ND‒TX)(2)

Works Cited

1.	Revision of Diaperini of American north of Mexico with notes on extralimital species (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) Triplehorn, C.A. 1965. Proceedings of the United States National Museum No. 3515, 117: 349-458.

2.	Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America Yves Bousquet, Donald B. Thomas, Patrice Bouchard, Aaron D. Smith, Rolf L. Aalbu, M. Andrew Johnston, Warren E. Steiner Jr. 2018. ZooKeys 728: 1-455.

Contributed by v belov on 7 May, 2009 - 9:05am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn
Last updated 22 December, 2023 - 6:09pm

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