Diplocotes

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Bostrichiformia
Superfamilia: Bostrichoidea

Familia: Ptinidae
Subfamilia: Ptininae
Tribus: Ectrephini
Genus: Diplocotes
Name

Diplocotes Westwood, 1869. Type species: Diplocotes howittanus Westwood, 1869, by monotypy.
Synonymy

Diphobia Olliff, 1886. Type species: Diphobia familiaris Olliff, 1886, by monotypy. [syn. Lawrence & Reichardt (1969: 17)]
Paussoptinus Lea, 1905. Type species: Paussoptinus laticornis Olliff, 1905, by monotypy. [syn. Lawrence & Reichardt (1969: 17)]
Decemplocotes Mjöberg, 1916. Type species: Diplocotes strigicollis Olliff, 1910, by subsequent designation by Lawrence & Reichardt (1969: 17). [Olliff (1917: 146)]
Mesectrephes Mjöberg, 1916. Type species: Ectrephes kingi Westwood, 1869, by monotypy. [syn. Lawrence & Reichardt (1969: 17)]
Bitrephes Oke, 1926. Type species: Bitrephes cuneiformis Oke], 1926, by monotypy. [syn. Lawrence & Reichardt (1969: 17)]
Falsoectrephes Pic, 1929. Type species: Ectrephes kingi Westwood, 1869, by monotypy. [syn. Reichardt (1969: 17)]

References

Bell, K.L. & Philips, T.K. 2008. Four new species of the myrmecophile Diplocotes Westwood (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) from Queensland and South Australia. Australian journal of entomology 47: 80–86.
Lawrence, J.F. & Reichardt, H. 1969. The myrmecophilous Ptinidae (Coleoptera), with a key to Australian species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard) 138(1): 1–28. Online.
Mjöberg, E. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 8. Ptinidae. Arkiv för zoologi 10(6): 1–15. [1]