Platytomus Explained

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

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)

Further reading

• Web site: 2019-07-02. A Worldwide Checklist of the Tribes and Genera of Aegialiinae, Aphodiinae, Termitotroginae, Aulonocneminae, Scarabaeinae, and Coprinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae). 2001. Mathison . Blaine A.. Hardy . Martin. Bezdek . Aleš. Schoolmeesters . Paul.
• Web site: 2019-07-02. Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles. Ratcliffe. Brett. Jameson. Mary Liz. https://web.archive.org/web/20190330151517/http://www.museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Guide/Guide-introduction/Guideintro.html. 2019-03-30. dead.
• Book: Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. 2006. Lobl . I.. Smetana . A.. Apollo Books. 978-90-04-30914-2.