Diaperini
Tribe of beetles
Diaperini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae . There are about 13 genera and at least 40 described species in Diaperini.
Platydema subcostatum
Genera
These 13 genera belong to the tribe Diaperini:
Adelina Dejean, 1835 i c g b
Alphitophagus Stephens, 1832 g b
Cynaeus Leconte, 1862 g b
Diaperis Geoffroy, 1762 i c g b
Doliodesmus Spilman, 1967 g b
Gnatocerus Thunberg, 1814 g b
Iccius Champion, 1886 g b
Liodema Horn, 1870 g b
Neomida Latreille, 1829 g b
Pentaphyllus Dejean, 1821 g b
Platydema Laporte & Brullé, 1831 i c g b
Sitophagus Mulsant, 1854 g b
Ulomoides Blackburn, 1888 g b
Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net
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 (88). Pensoft Publishers: 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. Vol. 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. Vol. 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 .
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 Diaperini at Wikimedia Commons