Platydema is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are at least 60 described species in Platydema.
Species
These 67 species belong to the genus Platydema:
- Platydema alticorne <small>Gravely, 1915</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema americanum <small>Laporte & Brullé, 1831</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g b</sup></span>
- Platydema aurimaculatum <small>Gravely, 1915</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema bimaculatum <small>Champion, 1886</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema coeruleum <small>Gebien, 1925</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema cruentum <small>(Perty, 1830)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema cruentatum <small>Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema dejeanii <small>Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema ellipticum <small>(Fabricius, 1798)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g b</sup></span>
- Platydema endoi <small>Masumoto, 1984</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema erythrocera<span style="color:gray"><sup> b</sup></span>
- Platydema europaeum <small>Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema excavatum <small>(Say, 1824)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g b</sup></span>
- Platydema flavipes <small>(Fabricius, 1801)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> b</sup></span>
- Platydema flavopictum <small>Gebien, 1913</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema fumosum<span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema guatemalense <small>Champion, 1886</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema haemorrhoidale <small>Gebien, 1913</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema inquilinum<span style="color:gray"><sup> b</sup></span>
- Platydema irradians <small>(Chevrolat, 1877)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema laevipes <small>Haldeman, 1848</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> b</sup></span>
- Platydema lebomicum <small>Schawaller, 2004</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema marseuli <small>Lewis, 1894</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema micans <small>Horn, 1870</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> b</sup></span>
- Platydema monoceros <small>Gebien, 1925</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema neglectum <small>Triplehorn, 1965</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema nigratum<span style="color:gray"><sup> b</sup></span>
- Platydema nigricorne <small>Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema nigrifrons <small>Chevrolat, 1878</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema notatum <small>Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema obscurum <small>Sharp, 1885</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> i c g</sup></span>
- Platydema oregonense <small>LeConte, 1857</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g b</sup></span>
- Platydema pallidicolle <small>(Lewis, 1894)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema parachalceum <small>Masumoto, 1982</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema picilabrum <small>Melsheimer, 1846</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> b</sup></span>
- Platydema picipes <small>Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema pictum <small>(Fauvel, 1904)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema quindecimmaculatum <small>Chevrolat, 1878</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema raharizoninai <small>Ardoin, 1966</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema rubropictum <small>Chevrolat, 1878</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema ruficolle<span style="color:gray"><sup> b</sup></span>
- Platydema ruficorne <small>(Sturm, 1826)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g b</sup></span>
- Platydema sakishimense <small>Nakane, 1973</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema sauteri <small>Gebien, 1913</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema sawadai <small>Masumoto, 1991</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema sexmaculatum <small>Chevrolat, 1878</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema sexnotatum<span style="color:gray"><sup> b</sup></span>
- Platydema silphoides <small>Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema striatum <small>(Montrouzier, 1860)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema subcostatum <small>Laporte & Brullé, 1831</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g b</sup></span>
- Platydema subfasciatum <small>(Walker, 1858)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema sulcipenne <small>Gebien, 1925</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema tahitiense <small>Kaszab, 1985</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema takeii <small>Nakane, 1956</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema teleops <small>Triplehorn, 1965</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g b</sup></span>
- Platydema terusane <small>Masumoto, 1984</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema tibiale <small>Chevrolat, 1878</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema toyamai <small>Masumoto & al., 2013</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema transversum <small>Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema triste <small>Laporte de Castelnau & Brulle, 1831</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema tuchinlonoi <small>Masumoto, 1982</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema varians <small>Laporte de Castelnau & Brullé, 1831</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema violaceum <small>(Fabricius, 1790)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
- Platydema wandae <small>Triplehorn, 1965</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> b</sup></span>
- Platydema yangmingense <small>Masumoto, 1982</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
<small>Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net</small>
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