Diamesus
Diamesus osculans from southern India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Silphidae
Subfamily:
Silphinae
Genus:
Diamesus

Hope, 1840
Species:
  • D. osculans (Vigors, 1825)
  • D. bimaculatus Portevin, 1914

Diamesus is a genus of rather large carrion beetle with two species distributed in tropical Asia and Australia. Like other Silphinae, it has an antenna with 11 segments. About 3 or 4 abdominal segments are visible beyond the tip of the elytra. The elytra themselves have longitudinal keels. The type species is Diamesus osculans.[1] The larvae are broad and flat and somewhat cockroach-like (blattiform).[2]

References

  1. ↑ Peck, Stewart B (2001). "Review of the carrion beetles of Australia and New Guinea (Coleoptera: Silphidae)" (PDF). Australian Journal of Entomology. 40 (2): 93–101. doi:10.1046/j.1440-6055.2001.00216.x.
  2. ↑ Hatch, Melville H. (1927). "Studies on the Silphinae". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 35 (4): 331–371.


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