Platydema micans Zimmermann, 1870

Traylor, Clayton R., Ulyshen, Michael D., Cornish, J. Winston, Tigreros, Gabriel & McHugh, Joseph V., 2025, Progress toward a list of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera) in the southeastern USA, ZooKeys 1232, pp. 1-95 : 1-95

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1232.143989

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E7F3DF85-80E1-41FB-8DB4-25E9460FCC9F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15027932

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4B13C1A6-938B-5A18-B591-1582349FDFF4

treatment provided by

ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Platydema micans Zimmermann, 1870
status

 

Platydema micans Zimmermann, 1870

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: two individuals from two sites. Sifted from leaf litter from 29 June – 31 August 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern United States, Central America, and Caribbean Islands.

Saproxylic habits.

Adults occur in decaying fleshy fungi ( Blatchley 1910) and under rotten wood ( Triplehorn 1965).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Tenebrionidae

Genus

Platydema