Platycerus hongwonpyoi

Platycerus hongwonpyoi is a species of stag beetle, from the Lucinidae family and Lucaninae subfamily. It was discovered in Korea by Imura and Choe in 1989.^[1]

Platycerus hongwonpyoi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Lucanidae
Genus:	Platycerus
Species:	P. hongwonpyoi
Binomial name
Platycerus hongwonpyoi Imura & Choe, 1989

The species has numerous sub-species, including:^[2]

• Platycerus hongwonpyoi dabashanensis (Okuda, 1997)
• Platycerus hongwonpyoi funiuensis (Imura, 2005)
• Platycerus hongwonpyoi merkli (Imura & Choe, 1989)
• Platycerus hongwonpyoi mongolicus (Imura & Bartolozzi, 2006)
• Platycerus hongwonpyoi quanbaoshanus (Imura, 2011)
• Platycerus hongwonpyoi quinlingensis (Imura, 1993)
• Platycerus hongwonpyoi shennongjianus (Imura, 2008)