identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
743C87CFF06CFFE01F884641DD4DFD2C.text	743C87CFF06CFFE01F884641DD4DFD2C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Platyceroidini Paulsen & Hawks 2008	<div><p>Platyceroidini, new tribe</p> <p>Type genus: Platyceroides Benesh 1946: 175, here designated.</p> <p>Description. Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae: Lucaninae. Length: 7.6-13.2 mm. Width: 3.2-5.8 mm. Color: Black to reddish-brown, occasionally with metallic reflections. Head: Anterior margin straight or weakly emarginate, not deeply, semi-circularly excised. Eye canthus weak but distinct (anterior margin of eye located on dorsal surface of head, per Holloway 1969). Antenna partially geniculate; antennal club composed of 3 antennomeres in both sexes. Mandibles small in both sexes, approximately 1/3 to 1/2 length of head; form not strongly sexually dimorphic, simply falcate, at most with weakly indicated tooth internally near base. Pronotum: Form broadly rounded, narrowly to broadly explanate. Elytra: Surface punctate, weakly striate. Wings: Males mostly with functional flight wings (one species with flightless males), females flightless in all species. Abdomen: Sixth ventrite rarely visible beyond apex of 5 th ventrite unless genitalia protruding. Male genitalia with internal sac permanently everted, with saclike accessory lobes not strongly sclerotized; flagellum present or absent.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/743C87CFF06CFFE01F884641DD4DFD2C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Paulsen, M. J.;Hawks, David C.	Paulsen, M. J., Hawks, David C. (2008): Platyceroidini, a new tribe of North American stag beetles (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae). Insecta Mundi 2008 (58): 1-2, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5170173
