Diochus

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: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Staphylininae
Tribus: Diochini
Genus: Diochus
Species: D. adisi – D. amazonensis – D. ampullaceus – D. angustiformis – D. antennalis – D. antennatus – D. apicipennis – D. argentinae – D. ashei – D. astutus – D. bicolor – D. bicoloripennis – D. bisegmentatus – D. borneensis – D. brooksi – D. brunneus – D. brunniventris – D. caudapiscis – D. cleidecostae – D. communis – D. conicollis – D. cristobalensis – D. curtipennis – D. debilis – D. divisus – D. dundoensis – D. ecuadoriensis – D. electrus – D. flandrianus – D. formicetorum – D. franzi – D. gabonicus – D. guianensis – D. guizhouensis – D. hanagarthi – D. hatayus – D. hermani – D. hibbsi – D. inornatus – D. isabelae – D. japonicus – D. libanoticus – D. longicornis – D. longus – D. machadoi – D. maculicollis – D. membranaceus – D. mexicanus – D. montguilloni – D. nanus – D. newtoni – D. novus – D. ochraceus – D. octavii – D. panamaensis – D. papuanus – D. parvulus – D. perplexus – D. peruvianus – D. petilus – D. plaumanni – D. proximus – D. pubiventris – D. pulchellus – D. pumilio – D. punctipennis – D. santacatarinae – D. santiagus – D. schaumii – D. schuelkei – D. senegalensis – D. staudingeri – D. sulcatus – D. tahitiensis – D. tarsalis – D. testaceus – D. tricolor – D. unicolor – D. ventralis – D. verhaaghi – D. vicinus

Invalid species names: D. bicornutus
Name

Diochus Erichson, 1839: 300

Type species: Diochus nanus Erichson, 1839: 301, fixed by monotypy.

Synonymy

Rhegmatocerus Motschulsky, 1858: 657
Type species: Rhegmatocerus punctipennis Motschulsky, 1858 fixed by subsequent designation by Blackwelder, 1943: 455.
Diochocerus Motschulsky, 1862: 13

References
Primary references

Erichson, W.F. 1839. Erster Band. Pp. 1–400. In: Genera et species Staphylinorum insectorum coleopterorum familiae. Berlin: F.H. Morin, viii + 954 pp. + 5 pls. BHL Reference page. [original description: p. 300]

Additional references

Chatzimanolis, S.; Engel, M.S. 2011: A new species of Diochus from Baltic amber (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Diochini). ZooKeys 138: 65–73. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.138.1896 Open access.
Irmler, U. 2017. A review of the Neotropical genus Diochus Erichson, 1840 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Beiträge zur entomologie 67(1): 1–62. DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.67.1.1-62 Reference page.
Smetana, A. 1982: Revision of the subfamily Xantholininae of America North of Mexico (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 120.
Zhou, Y-L. & Zhou, H-Z. 2016. Taxonomy of the genus Diochus Erichson, 1839 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Staphylininae, Diochini) in China with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa 4127(1): 1–30. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.1.1. Reference page.

Diochus is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae.[1]

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.[1]
Species

Species:[1]

Diochus adisi Irmler, 2017
Diochus amazonensis Irmler, 2017
Diochus ampullaceus Zhou, Yu-Lingzi & Hong-Zhang Zhou, 2016

References

"Diochus Erichson, 1839". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 9 May 2021.