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Classification ........Platyceroides Benesh 1946: 175.

Superfamily.....
Family........... Subfamily......

Scarabaeoidea
Lucanidae
Platycerinae
 
Platycerinae Genera

Platyceroides
Platyceropsis
Platycerus

 

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Distribution of Platyceroides species.
 
 
 

P. laticollis (Casey), male. Photo by M.J. Paulsen

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 

Distribution: Nearctic: United States (WA, OR, CA), Canada (BC).

 

Revision or Synopsis:

 

Benesh, B. 1946. A systematic revision of the Holarctic genus Platycerus Geoffroy (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 63: 139-203.

 
 
 

Composition: 7 species.

 

Taxonomy:

 

Keys to Species:

 

(Nearctic) Benesh, B. 1946. A systematic revision of the Holarctic genus Platycerus Geoffroy (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 63: 139-203.

 
 
 

Species profiles: (click on species names)

P. aeneus (Van Dyke)
P. agassii LeConte
P. laticollis (Casey)
P. latus (Fall)
P. opacus (Fall)
P. thoracicus (Casey)
P. viriditinctus (Benesh)


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
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Author: M. J. Paulsen
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University of Nebraska State Museum - Division of Entomology