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Platytomus
Sign in to savePlatytomus is a genus of aphodiine dung beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are more than 20 described species in Platytomus.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 175
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Collections
- FMNH, NMMNHS, NMSU, TAMU, OSUC
- Recorded in
- Costa Rica, United States, MéXico, Australia, Brazil
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Platytomus is a genus of aphodiine dung beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are more than 20 described species in Platytomus.
==Species== These 26 species belong to the genus Platytomus: Platytomus antipodum (Fauvel, 1903) Platytomus ashantii (Endrödi, 1973) Platytomus atlanticus (Cartwright, 1948) Platytomus caelicollis (Cartwright, 1948) Platytomus darwini (Cartwright, 1970) Platytomus freudei (Balthasar, 1960) Platytomus gomyi Pittino & Mariani, 1986 Platytomus gregalis (Cartwright, 1948) Platytomus grisoli (Paulian, 1942) Platytomus hawaiiensis (Rakovic, 1981) Platytomus indicus (Balthasar, 1941) Platytomus jailensis (Apostolov & Maltzev, 1986) Platytomus laevistriatus (Perris, 1869) Platytomus longulus (Cartwright, 1948) Platytomus micros (Bates, 1887) Platytomus mongolicus (Medvedev, 1974) Platytomus nagporensis Pittino & Mariani, 1986 Platytomus nathani Pittino & Mariani, 1986 Platytomus notialis (Cartwright, 1948) Platytomus obscurior (Blackburn, 1904) Platytomus pachypus (Lea, 1923) Platytomus parvulus (Chevrolat, 1864) Platytomus pumilio (Balthasar, 1966) Platytomus tibialis (Fabricius, 1798) Platytomus variolosus (Kolenati, 1846) Platytomus yadai (Ochi, Kawahara & Inagaki, 2006)
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