Platydracus

{{Short description|Genus of beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Platydracus-fulvipes-04-fws.jpg | image_caption = ''Platydracus fulvipes'' | taxon = Platydracus | authority = Thomson, 1858 | display_parents = 3 | diversity_link = List of Platydracus species | diversity = at least 280 species }}

'''''Platydracus''''' is a genus of rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are more than 280 described species in ''Platydracus''.

The species of ''Platydracus'' were formerly classified in the genus ''Staphylinus''.<ref name=gbif/><ref name=bugguide/> thumb|''Platydracus violaceus''

==See also== * List of Platydracus species

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=''Platydracus'' | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/4407267 | website=GBIF | accessdate=2020-03-19 }}</ref>

<ref name=bugguide> {{Cite web| title=''Platydracus'' genus Information | url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/13799 | website=BugGuide.net | accessdate=2020-03-19 }}</ref> }}

==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite journal | title = Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history | date = 2011 | last1 = Frank | first1 = J. H. | last2 = Ahn | first2 = K. J. | journal = ZooKeys | issue = 107| pages = 1–98 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.107.1651 | pmc=3392188 | pmid=22792029 | doi-access = free }} * {{Cite book | title = Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea | date = 2015 | editor-last1 = Lobl | editor-first1 = I. | editor-last2 = Smetana | editor-first2 = A. | publisher = Apollo Books | isbn = 978-90-04-29685-5 }} {{refend}}

==External links== {{refbegin}} * {{Commons-inline}} {{refend}}

Category:Staphylininae Category:Staphylinidae genera Category:Taxa named by Carl Gustaf Thomson