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Diomus Mulsant 1850

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Diomus Mulsant, 1850

Scymnus (Diomus) Mulsant, 1850: 951; Gorham, 1897: 226; Korschefsky, 1931: 116. Diomus: Weise, 1895: 144; Gordon, 1976: 319; 1985: 315; 1987: 31–32; Gordon & Hilburn, 1990: 277; Gordon, 1999: 13; Vandenberg & Hanson, 2019: 262.

Amidellus Weise, 1923: 141.

Type species: Coccinella thoracica Fabricius, 1801; by subsequent designation of Korschefsky (1931).

Distribution by States in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Maranhão; Ceará; Rio Grande do Norte; Pernambuco; Bahia; Alagoas.

Species from the Northeast Region of Brazil. Diomus boniface Gordon, 1999; Diomus caius Gordon, 1999; Diomus catherine Gordon, 1999; Diomus geniales Brèthes, 1924; Diomus leondai González, Ramos & Lemos, 2020; Diomus luke Gordon, 1999; Diomus magdalen Gordon, 1999; Diomus matthias Gordon, 1999; Diomus nabor Gordon, 1999; Diomus seminulus (Mulsant, 1850); Diomus susanna Gordon, 1999; Diomus tenuis Brèthes, 1925; Diomus tucumanus Weise, 1905; Diomus ursula Gordon, 1999.

Comments. Diomus is by far the most diverse genus in Brazil, with 130 species in total and fourteen of them occurring in NE Brazil (Gordon 1999; Ramos et al. 2020).

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Published as part of Duarte-De-Mélo, Jefferson, Almeida, Lúcia Massutti De & Lima, Iracilda Maria De Moura, 2025, A diversity panorama of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from Northeastern Brazil, pp. 451-495 in Zootaxa 5728 (3) on page 468, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5728.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/17894971

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C18794546DFF8FFF2AFF54F42BC4F1

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5728.3.2 (DOI)
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https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314278/taxon/03C18794546DFF8FFF2AFF54F42BC4F1.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Mulsant
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Coccinellidae
Genus
Diomus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Diomus Mulsant, 1850 sec. Duarte-De-Mélo, Almeida & Lima, 2025

References

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  • Korschefsky, R. (1931) Pars 118. Coccinellidae. I. In: Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (Eds.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, Berlin, pp. 1-225.
  • Weise, J. (1895) Neue Coccinelliden, sowie Bemerkungen zu bekannten Arten. Annales de la Societe Entomologique du Belgique, 1895, 120-146.
  • Gordon, R. D. (1976) The Scymnini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the United States and Canada: key to genera and revision of Scymnus, Nephus and Diomus. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 28, 1-362.
  • Gordon, R. D. (1985) The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America north of Mexico. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 93 (1), 1-916.
  • Gordon, R. D. (1987) A catalogue of the Crotch collection of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology, 3, 1-46.
  • Gordon, R. D. & Hilburn, D. J. (1990) The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of Bermuda. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 98 (3), 265-309.
  • Gordon, R. D. (1999) South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Part VI: A systematic revision of the South American Diomini, new tribe (Scymninae). Annales Zoologici, 49 (Supplement 1), 1-219.
  • Vandenberg, N. J. & Hanson, P. E. (2019) Overview of the lady beetle tribe Diomini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and description of a new phytophagous, silk-spinning genus from Costa Rica that induces food bodies on leaves of Piper (Piperaceae). Zootaxa, 4554 (1), 255-285. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4554.1.9
  • Weise, J. (1923) Results of Dr. E. Mjoberg's Swedish Scientific Expedition to Australia 1910 - 1913. 31. Chrysomeliden und Coccinelliden aus Queensland. Arkiv for Zoologi, 15 (12), 1-150. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.790
  • Fabricius, J. C. (1801) Systema eleutheratorum secundum ordines, genera, species: adiectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus I. Impensis bibliopoli academici novi, Kiliae, 506 pp.
  • Brethes, J. (1924) Sur une collection de Coccinellides (et un Phalacridae) du British Museum. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires, 33, 145-175.
  • Ramos, A. S., Gonzalez, G. & Lemos, R. N. S. (2020) A new species of Diomus Mulsant (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Diomini) from the eastern Amazon. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 64, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9665-rbent-2020-0014
  • Brethes, J. (1925) Coccinellides du British Museum. Nouveaux Coleopteres Sudamericains. Nunquam Otiosus, IV, 1-10.