Platerodrilus

Platerodrilus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Superfamily: Elateroidea
Family: Lycidae
Genus: Platerodrilus
Pic, 1921
Species

see text

Synonyms

Duliticola Mjöberg, 1925
Falsocalochromus Pic, 1942
Platerodriloplesius Wittmer, 1944
Platrilus Kazantsev, 2009

Platerodrilus is a genus of beetles of the family Lycidae. They commonly appear in the literature under the name Duliticola, which is an obsolete junior synonym.[1] The females stay in the larval form and are about 40–80 mm in length. They have a flat dark body with large scales over the head, resembling trilobites, hence the informal names Trilobite beetle, Trilobite larva or "Sumatran Trilobite larva". The males are much smaller, 8–9 mm, with a beetle-like appearance. Most are found in tropical rainforests, notably in India and South-east Asia.

Species

References

  1. ↑ Michal Masek, Ladislav Bocak. 2013. The taxonomy and diversity of Platerodrilus (Coleoptera, Lycidae) inferred from molecular data and morphology of adults and larvae. ZooKeys 426: 29–63. ISSN 1313-2970
  2. ↑ Mjöberg, E. 1925. The mystery of the so called "trilobite larvae" or "Perty's larvae" definitely solved. Psyche 32: 119–154, pls. 3–4.
  3. ↑ Duliticola paradoxa. (eol.org)
  4. ↑ Wong A.T.C. 1996. A new species of neotenous beetle, Duliticola hoiseni (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cantharoidea: Lycidae) from Peninsula Malaysia and Singapore. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Vol.41. No.1. P.173–187.
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