Diaperinae

Diaperinae is a subfamily of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are at least 20 genera and 60 described species in Diaperinae.[1][2][3]

Trachyscelis aphodioides

Diaperinae
Adelina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Tenebrionidae
Subfamily:	Diaperinae Latreille, 1802

Genera

These 22 genera belong to the subfamily Diaperinae:

• Adelina Dejean, 1835 ^{i c g b}
• Alphitophagus Stephens, 1832 ^{g b}
• Corticeus Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783 ^{g b}
• Cynaeus Leconte, 1862 ^{g b}
• Diaperis Geoffroy, 1762 ^{i c g b}
• Doliodesmus Spilman, 1967 ^{g b}
• Gnatocerus Thunberg, 1814 ^{g b}
• Gondwanocrypticus Español Coll, 1955 ^{g b}
• Iccius Champion, 1886 ^{g b}
• Liodema Horn, 1870 ^{g b}
• Myrmechixenis ^b
• Neomida Latreille, 1829 ^{g b}
• Pentaphyllus Dejean, 1821 ^{g b}
• Phaleria Latrielle, 1802 ^{i c g b}
• Phaleromela Reitter, 1916 ^{g b}
• Platydema Laporte & Brullé, 1831 ^{i c g b}
• Poecilocrypticus Gebien, 1928 ^b
• Scaphidema Redtenbacher, 1849 ^{g b}
• Sitophagus Mulsant, 1854 ^{g b}
• Trachyscelis Latreille, 1809 ^{g b}
• Tyrtaeus Champion, 1913 ^{g b}
• Ulomoides Blackburn, 1888 ^{g b}

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[4] g = GBIF,[5] b = Bugguide.net[2]

References

1. "Diaperinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
2. "Diaperinae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
3. "Diaperinae Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
4. "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-06.
5. "GBIF". Retrieved 2018-04-06.

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
• Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys. Pensoft Publishers (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
• Bousquet, Y.; Thomas, D.B.; Bouchard, P.; Smith, A.D.; et al. (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America". ZooKeys (728): 1–455. doi:10.3897/zookeys.728.20602. PMC 5799738. PMID 29416389.
• Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38811. ISBN 0665070772.
• Evans, Arthur V.; Hogue, James N. (2006). Field Guide to Beetles of California. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520246577.
• Klimaszewski, Jan; Watt, J.Charles (1997). "Coleoptera: family-group review and keys to identification". Fauna of New Zealand. 37.
• Lawrence, J.F.; Newton Jr., A.F. (1995). Pakaluk, James; Slipinski, Stanislaw Adam (eds.). Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. 2. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN. pp. 779–1006. ISBN 83-85192-34-4.
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
• Leng, Charles W. (1920). Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.8777.
• Poole, Robert W.; Gentili, Patricia, eds. (1996). "A Check List of the Insects of North America: Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America. Entomological Information Services. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera: 41–820. ISBN 9781889002019.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

External links

• Media related to Diaperinae at Wikimedia Commons