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Genus Diomus

Coccinellid - Diomus terminatus suspected Diomus terminatus - Diomus terminatus Scymnus rubricaudus - Diomus terminatus Diomus Terminatus life cycle - Diomus terminatus Diomus bigemmeus (Horn) - Diomus bigemmeus Diomus terminates (Say) - Diomus terminatus Larva - Diomus Beetle Larva - Diomus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Coccinelloidea
No Taxon (Coccinellid group)
Family Coccinellidae (Lady Beetles)
Subfamily Scymninae
Tribe Diomini
Genus Diomus
Explanation of Names
Diomus Mulsant 1850
Numbers
18 spp. in our area(1)
Range
Generally distributed(1)(2)
Print References
Gordon R.D. (1999) South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part VI: a systematic revision of the South American Diomini, new tribe (Scymninae). Annales Zoologici (Warszawa), 49 (Supplement 1): 1-219.
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.The Scymnini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the United States & Canada: Key to genera and revision of Scymnus, Nephus, & Diomus
Robert D. Gordon. 1976. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Buffalo, NY, Vol 28.
Contributed by tom murray on 27 March, 2006 - 6:29pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 21 May, 2014 - 11:20am

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