Diplocotes

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Bostrichoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Bostrichiformia Superfamilia: Bostrichoidea

Familia: Ptinidae
Subfamilia: Ptininae
Tribus: Ectrephini
Genus: Diplocotes

Name

Diplocotes Westwood, 1869. Type species: Diplocotes howittanus Westwood, 1869, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Diphobia Olliff, 1886. Type species: Diphobia familiaris Olliff, 1886, by monotypy. [syn. Lawrence & Reichardt (1969: 17)]
• Paussoptinus Lea, 1905. Type species: Paussoptinus laticornis Olliff, 1905, by monotypy. [syn. Lawrence & Reichardt (1969: 17)]
• Decemplocotes Mjöberg, 1916. Type species: Diplocotes strigicollis Olliff, 1910, by subsequent designation by Lawrence & Reichardt (1969: 17). [Olliff (1917: 146)]
• Mesectrephes Mjöberg, 1916. Type species: Ectrephes kingi Westwood, 1869, by monotypy. [syn. Lawrence & Reichardt (1969: 17)]
• Bitrephes Oke, 1926. Type species: Bitrephes cuneiformis Oke], 1926, by monotypy. [syn. Lawrence & Reichardt (1969: 17)]
• Falsoectrephes Pic, 1929. Type species: Ectrephes kingi Westwood, 1869, by monotypy. [syn. Reichardt (1969: 17)]

References

• Bell, K.L. & Philips, T.K. 2008. Four new species of the myrmecophile Diplocotes Westwood (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) from Queensland and South Australia. Australian journal of entomology 47: 80–86.
• Lawrence, J.F. & Reichardt, H. 1969. The myrmecophilous Ptinidae (Coleoptera), with a key to Australian species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard) 138(1): 1–28. Online.
• Mjöberg, E. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 8. Ptinidae. Arkiv för zoologi 10(6): 1–15. [1]