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Platysoma
Platysoma is a genus of clown beetles in the family Histeridae. There are more than 80 described species in Platysoma.
27 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Platysoma leconti
speciesPlatysoma leconti

Platysoma compressum
speciesPlatysoma compressum

Platysoma elongatum
speciesPlatysoma elongatum

Cylister
subgenusCylister

Platysoma lineare
speciesPlatysoma lineare

Platysoma deplanatum
speciesPlatysoma deplanatum

Platysoma cylindricum
speciesPlatysoma cylindricum

Platysoma lineicolle
speciesPlatysoma lineicolle

Platysoma parallelum
speciesPlatysoma parallelum

Platysoma filiforme
speciesPlatysoma filiforme

Platysoma urvillei
speciesPlatysoma urvillei

Platysoma punctigerum
speciesPlatysoma punctigerum

Platysoma angustatum
speciesPlatysoma angustatum

Platysoma coarctatum
speciesPlatysoma coarctatum

Platysoma cornix
speciesPlatysoma cornix

Platysoma gracile
speciesPlatysoma gracile

Platysoma aurelianum
speciesPlatysoma aurelianum

Platysoma dufali
speciesPlatysoma dufali

Platysoma deficiens
speciesPlatysoma deficiens

Platysoma attenuatum
speciesPlatysoma attenuatum
Platysoma aequum
speciesPlatysoma aequum
Platysoma carolinum
speciesPlatysoma carolinum
Platysoma afghanum
speciesPlatysoma afghanum
Platysoma bifoveolatum
speciesPlatysoma bifoveolatum
Platysoma subdepressum
speciesPlatysoma subdepressum
Platysoma minus
speciesPlatysoma minus

Platysoma chinense
speciesPlatysoma chinense
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 212086.