Diplotrichus Jordal, 2021

Jordal, Bjarte H., 2021, An integrated taxonomic revision of Diplotrichus (Coleoptera, Scolytinae) supports a Malagasy origin and single colonisation of South Africa, Zootaxa 5047 (2), pp. 101-122 : 102

Diplotrichus Jordal, 2021

Diplotrichus Jordal, 2021b: 268

Landolphianus Schedl, 1950: 106 , syn. – type species not designated (Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal 2009)

Micraciops Schedl, 1953: 86 , syn. – type species not designated (Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal 2009)

Type species: Diplotrichus gracilis Schedl, 1958 .

Diagnosis. Antennal scapus inflated, in females usually triangular or rounded (dorsal spine present in one species), funiculus 6-segmented, antennal club with two procurved sutures. All interstriae with a single row of setae (one exception), strial setae very fine, recumbent, in rows. Protibiae with three or four lateral and apical denticles; metatibiae rounded at apicolateral corner. Ventrites 1 and 2 and part of the metaventrite with bifid setae. Proventriculus with crop spines fused into a falcate beak-like structure. Male genitalia with long apophyses, an exceedingly long and enlarged, curled flagellum; tegmen and spiculum gastrale not present.