Platyusa

Platyusa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Staphyliniformia
Family:	Staphylinidae
Subtribe:	Myrmedoniina
Genus:	Platyusa Casey, 1885
Species:	P. sonomae
Binomial name
Platyusa sonomae Casey, 1885

Platyusa is a monotypic genus of rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There is one described species in Platyusa, P. sonomae, found in the western United States.[1][2][3][4]

References

1. "Platyusa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
2. "Platyusa". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
3. "Platyusa genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
4. Hlaváč, Peter; Newton, Alfred F.; Maruyama, Munetoshi (2011). "World catalogue of the species of the tribe Lomechusini (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)". Zootaxa. 3075.

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P.E.; Frank, J.H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Elven, Hallvard; Bachmann, Lutz; Gusarov, Vladimir I. (2012). "Molecular phylogeny of the Athetini–Lomechusini–Ecitocharini clade of aleocharine rove beetles (Insecta)". Zoologica Scripta. 41 (6): 617–636. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00553.x. PMC 3532658. PMID 23316099.
• Frank, J. H.; Ahn, K. J. (2011). "Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history". ZooKeys (107): 1–98. Bibcode:2011ZooK..107....1A. doi:10.3897/zookeys.107.1651. PMC 3392188. PMID 22792029.
• Klimaszewski, Jan; Pelletier, Georges; Maruyama, Munetoshi; Hlavác, Peter (2005). "Canadian species of the Zyras group of genera and review of the types from America north of Mexico (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)". Revue suisse de Zoologie. 112 (3): 703–733. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.80322.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2015). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-29685-5.
• Seevers, Charles H. (1978). "A generic and tribal revision of the North American Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)". Fieldiana, Zoology. 71. ISSN 0015-0754.
• White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.