Diomus Mulsant, 1850

Vandenberg, Natalia J., Iverson, Aaron & Liere, Heidi, 2018, A new species of myrmecophilous lady beetle in the genus Diomus (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Diomini) from Chiapas, Mexico that feeds on green coffee scale, Coccus viridis (Green) (Hemiptera: Coccidae), Zootaxa 4420 (1), pp. 113-122 : 114

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4420.1.6
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5968647
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scientific name	Diomus Mulsant
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Diomus Mulsant View in CoL View at ENA

Scymnus (Diomus) Mulsant 1850: 951 . Type species: Coccinella thoracica Fabricius, 1801 , by subsequent designation of Korschefsky 1931.

Diomus: Weise 1895:144 View in CoL .

Nephus (Diomus) View in CoL : Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1976: 377.

Amidellus Weise 1923: 141 . Type species: Scymnus ementitor Blackburn, 1895 by original designation. Synonymized by Ślipiński 2007: 87 (see Gordon (1976) and Pang & Gordon (1986) for a more complete bibliography).

Diomus View in CoL is the most speciose genus in the tribe Diomini Gordon, 1999 , and possibly the largest genus in the entire family Coccinellidae Latreille, 1807 View in CoL ( Pang & Ślipiński 2009, 2010). Diomus View in CoL was originally placed as a subgenus of Scymnus Kugellan, 1794 View in CoL , and classified, until recent times, in the tribe Scymnini Mulsant, 1846 along with a miscellaneous assortment of other small pubescent lady beetles. Gordon (1999) recognized Diomus View in CoL and allies as deserving of their own tribe Diomini , distinct from Scymnini , but unfortunately his circumscription of the former included some genera belonging to another tribe—Selvadiini Gordon, 1985 ( Vandenberg 2002; Vandenberg & Hanson in review). A re-circumscription and review of Diomini is detailed in Vandenberg and Hanson (in review) and will not be repeated here.