Platydema ellipticum is a species of darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae.[1][2][3]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Tenebrionidae |
Genus: | Platydema |
Species: | P. ellipticum
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Binomial name | |
Platydema ellipticum (Fabricius, 1798)
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References
edit- ^ "Platydema ellipticum". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ "Platydema ellipticum Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ "Platydema ellipticum Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
Further reading
edit- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
- Bousquet, Y.; Thomas, D.B.; Bouchard, P.; Smith, A.D.; et al. (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America". ZooKeys (728): 1–455. doi:10.3897/zookeys.728.20602. PMC 5799738. PMID 29416389.
- LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
- White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.
External links
edit- Media related to Platydema ellipticum at Wikimedia Commons