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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Ground and Water Beetles (Adephaga) » Predaceous Diving Beetles (Dytiscidae) » Agabinae » Platambus

Genus Platambus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited
Dytiscid - Platambus predaceous diving beetle - Platambus semivittatus - female predaceous diving beetle - Platambus semivittatus - female Beetle - Platambus semivittatus predaceous diving beetle - Platambus semivittatus predaceous diving beetle - Platambus semivittatus Platambus johannis - male Platambus stagninus - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga (Ground and Water Beetles)
Family Dytiscidae (Predaceous Diving Beetles)
Subfamily Agabinae
Genus Platambus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Includes the former Agabus semivittatus group (1); the following Nearctic Agabus species are now classified under Platambus: A. semivittatus, A. johannis, A. astrictovittatus, A. stagninus, A. flavovittatus, and A. texovittatus. See Nilsson (2001) for more details.
Explanation of Names
Platambus Thomson, 1859
Identification
Members of the group have a subapical lateral pale stripe on each elytron. With exception of P. semivittatus, most species are difficult to separate without dissection of male genitalia.
Range
e. NA to Calif, center of diversity in the southeast (1); only P. semivittatus occurs as far west as CA and as far north as Quebec, Canada (1), also Europe and e. Asia - Map (2)
Print References
Nilsson, Anders N. 2001. World Catalogue of Insects, volume 3: Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) Apollo Books, 395 pp.
Works Cited
1.Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska
D.J. Larson, Y. Alarie, and R.E. Roughley. 2001. NRC 43253.
2.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Tim Loh on 13 August, 2010 - 11:00am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 16 August, 2021 - 1:48pm

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