Diamesus
| Diamesus | |
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| Diamesus osculans from southern India | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Staphyliniformia |
| Family: | Silphidae |
| Subfamily: | Silphinae |
| Tribe: | Necrodini |
| Genus: | Hope, 1840 |
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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
- ^ 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.
- ^ Hatch, Melville H. (1927). "Studies on the Silphinae". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 35 (4): 331–371.