kingdom: Animalia >
phylum: Arthropoda >
class: Insecta >
order: Coleoptera >
superfamily: Caraboidea >
family: Carabidae Latreille, 1802 >
subfamily: Platyninae Bonelli, 1810 >
tribe: Sphodrini Laporte, 1834 >
subtribe: Atranopsina Baehr, 1982 >
genus: Platyderus Stephens, 1827 >
species: Platyderus calathoides (Dejean, 1828) >