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Plateros

Plateros is a genus of net-winged beetles that belongs to the tribe Platerodini.

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Plateros
A unknown Plateros species located in the Himalayas
Unknown Plateros species from Sapelo Island, Georgia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Family: Lycidae
Subfamily: Lycinae
Tribe: Platerodini
Genus: Plateros
Bourgeois, 1879
Diversity
47 species
Synonyms

Planeteros Gorham, 1883

Plateros is a genus of net-winged beetles that belongs to the tribe Platerodini.12

Distribution

Members of this genus have a wide distribution being found in the Americas, Africa and Asia, including Sri Lanka, Indochina, Korea and Japan.3

Taxonomy

Species

This genus currently contains 47 described species. This makes this genus the largest of its family.3 A list can be found below:123

  1. Plateros arizonensis Green, 1953
  2. Plateros australis Green, 1953
  3. Plateros avians Green, 1953
  4. Plateros batillifer Green, 1953
  5. Plateros bidens Green, 1953
  6. Plateros bispiculatus Green, 1953
  7. Plateros borealis Green, 1953
  8. Plateros capillaris Green, 1953
  9. Plateros capitatus Green, 1953
  10. Plateros carinulatus Green, 1953
  11. Plateros centralis Green, 1953
  12. Plateros coccinicollis Fall, 1910
  13. Plateros dentaticornis Wang, Chengtao & Yang, Yuxia & Fang, Chen & Yang, Xingke & Liu, Haoyu. (2026)
  14. Plateros devians Green, 1953
  15. Plateros elongatus Wang, Chengtao & Yang, Yuxia & Fang, Chen & Yang, Xingke & Liu, Haoyu. (2026)
  16. Plateros flavoscutellatus Blatchley, 1914
  17. Plateros floralis (Melsheimer, 1845)
  18. Plateros hainanensis Wang, Chengtao & Yang, Yuxia & Fang, Chen & Yang, Xingke & Liu, Haoyu. (2026)
  19. Plateros kalamensis Tvardik & Bocak, 2001
  20. Plateros knulli Green, 1953
  21. Plateros krivolutzkii L. Medvedev
  22. Plateros kurentzovi L. Medvedev
  23. Plateros lalui Tvardik & Bocak, 2001
  24. Plateros lictor (Newman, 1838)
  25. Plateros mamasensis Tvardik & Bocak, 2001
  26. Plateros milenae Tvardik & Bocak, 2001
  27. Plateros modestus (Say, 1835)
  28. Plateros nigerrimus Schaeffer, 1908
  29. Plateros nigrior Green, 1953
  30. Plateros ocularis Green, 1953
  31. Plateros orobuensis Tvardik & Bocak, 2001
  32. Plateros perditus Green, 1953
  33. Plateros peregrinus Green, 1953
  34. Plateros roseimargo Fall, 1910
  35. Plateros rubromamasensis Tvardik & Bocak, 2001
  36. Plateros sanguinicollis Horn, 1894
  37. Plateros sinuatus Wang, Chengtao & Yang, Yuxia & Fang, Chen & Yang, Xingke & Liu, Haoyu. (2026)
  38. Plateros sollicitus (LeConte, 1847)
  39. Plateros spinulosus Wang, Chengtao & Yang, Yuxia & Fang, Chen & Yang, Xingke & Liu, Haoyu. (2026)
  40. Plateros subfurcatus Green, 1953
  41. Plateros subtortus Green, 1953
  42. Plateros tanatorajensis Tvardik & Bocak, 2001
  43. Plateros timidus (LeConte, 1847)
  44. Plateros transpictus Green, 1953
  45. Plateros tumacacori Green, 1953
  46. Plateros ussuriensis Barovskij
  47. Plateros volatus Green, 1953
References

References

  1. "Plateros Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  2. "Plateros Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  3. "Plateros Bourgeois, 1879". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 20 April 2026.
  • 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

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.
  • Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
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