Plateros is a genus of net-winged beetles that belongs to the tribe Platerodini.
Distribution Members of this genus have a wide distribution being found in the Americas, Africa and Asia, including Sri Lanka, Indochina, Korea and Japan.
Taxonomy
Species This genus currently contains 47 described species. This makes this genus the largest of its family. A list can be found below: Plateros arizonensis Green, 1953 Plateros australis Green, 1953 Plateros avians Green, 1953 Plateros batillifer Green, 1953 Plateros bidens Green, 1953 Plateros bispiculatus Green, 1953 Plateros borealis Green, 1953 Plateros capillaris Green, 1953 Plateros capitatus Green, 1953 Plateros carinulatus Green, 1953 Plateros centralis Green, 1953 Plateros coccinicollis Fall, 1910 Plateros dentaticornis Wang, Chengtao & Yang, Yuxia & Fang, Chen & Yang, Xingke & Liu, Haoyu. (2026) Plateros devians Green, 1953 Plateros elongatus Wang, Chengtao & Yang, Yuxia & Fang, Chen & Yang, Xingke & Liu, Haoyu. (2026) Plateros flavoscutellatus Blatchley, 1914 Plateros floralis (Melsheimer, 1845) Plateros hainanensis Wang, Chengtao & Yang, Yuxia & Fang, Chen & Yang, Xingke & Liu, Haoyu. (2026) Plateros kalamensis Tvardik & Bocak, 2001 Plateros knulli Green, 1953 Plateros krivolutzkii L. Medvedev Plateros kurentzovi L. Medvedev Plateros lalui Tvardik & Bocak, 2001 Plateros lictor (Newman, 1838) Plateros mamasensis Tvardik & Bocak, 2001 Plateros milenae Tvardik & Bocak, 2001 Plateros modestus (Say, 1835) Plateros nigerrimus Schaeffer, 1908 Plateros nigrior Green, 1953 Plateros ocularis Green, 1953 Plateros orobuensis Tvardik & Bocak, 2001 Plateros perditus Green, 1953 Plateros peregrinus Green, 1953 Plateros roseimargo Fall, 1910 Plateros rubromamasensis Tvardik & Bocak, 2001 Plateros sanguinicollis Horn, 1894 Plateros sinuatus Wang, Chengtao & Yang, Yuxia & Fang, Chen & Yang, Xingke & Liu, Haoyu. (2026) Plateros sollicitus (LeConte, 1847) Plateros spinulosus Wang, Chengtao & Yang, Yuxia & Fang, Chen & Yang, Xingke & Liu, Haoyu. (2026) Plateros subfurcatus Green, 1953 Plateros subtortus Green, 1953 Plateros tanatorajensis Tvardik & Bocak, 2001 Plateros timidus (LeConte, 1847) Plateros transpictus Green, 1953 Plateros tumacacori Green, 1953 Plateros ussuriensis Barovskij Plateros volatus Green, 1953
References
Miller, Richard S. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 59. Lycidae Laporte 1836". American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 174–178.
Further reading
Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
External links
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Plateros