Diaperis
Genus of beetles
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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]
| Diaperis | |
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| Diaperis boleti | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Tenebrionidae |
| Tribe: | Diaperini |
| Genus: | Diaperis Geoffroy, 1762 |
| Type species | |
| Chrysomela boleti Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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