Diaperis
| Diaperis | |
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| Diaperis boleti | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Tenebrionidae |
| Tribe: | Diaperini |
| Genus: | Diaperis Geoffroy, 1762 |
| Type species | |
| Chrysomela boleti Linnaeus, 1758
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Diaperis is a genus of darkling beetle with species known from Asia, Europe, and the Americas.[1] Some species were formerly placed in the genus Allophasia.[2] A species described in this genus is now Serrania viridula (Zayas, 1989).[3]
Species in the genus include:[4]
- Diaperis bifida Triplehorn and Brendell
- Diaperis boleti (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Diaperis boleti bipustulata Laporte & Brullé, 1831
- Diaperis californica Blaisdell, 1929
- Diaperis coccinea Laporte de Castelnau, 1840
- Diaperis fryi (Pascoe)
- Diaperis lewisi Bates
- Diaperis lewisi intersecta Gebien, 1913
- Diaperis maculata Olivier 1791
- Diaperis marseuli (Bates)
- Diaperis nigronotata Pic 1926
- Diaperis rufipes Horn, 1870
References[edit]
- ^ Laporte [=Castelnau], F. L. N. C. d.; Brullé, A. (1831). "Monographie du genre Diaperis". Annales des Sciences Naturelles. 23: 325–410.
- ^ Triplehorn, Charles A.; Brendell, Martin J. D. (1985). "A New Diaperis from Brazil, with Notes on Other Species and Generic Relationships (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Diaperinae)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 39 (1): 11–15. ISSN 0010-065X.
- ^ Garrido, O.H. (2003). "Diaperis viridula (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Diaperini) es un táxon válido que representa un género nuevo para Cuba" (PDF). Solenodon. 3: 49–52.
- ^ Triplehorn, Charles A. (1965). "Revision of Diaperini of America north of Mexico with notes on extralimital species (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)" (PDF). Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum. 117 (3515): 349–457.