Biology:Diamella

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Short description: Genus of beetles

Diamella
Diamella cupreomicans - ZooKeys-284-001-g003-13.jpeg
Diamella cupreomicans
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Subtribe: Physoderina
Genus: Diamella
Jedlicka, 1952
Type species
Diamella kaszabi
Jedlička, 1952[1]
Species

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Diamella is a genus of beetle in the family Carabidae. It was originally described by Arnošt Jedlička in 1952 as Dianella. Hongliang Shi, Hongzhang Zhou, and Hongbin Liang proposed Diamella as a replacement name in 2013, since Jedlička's Dianella was a junior homonym of the gastropod genus Dianella, described by Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude in 1913.[1]

Originally monotypic, Diamella now contains five species in total:[2]

  • Diamella arrowi Jedlicka, 1952[1]
  • Diamella barsevskisi Anichtchenko, 2016[3]
  • Diamella cupreomicans Oberthür, 1883[1]
  • Diamella kaszabi Jedlicka, 1952[1]
  • Diamella singularis Anichtchenko, 2017[2]

References


Wikidata ☰ Q19939017 entry