Document Type : Research Article
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Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University, Khoramabad, Iran.
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Department of Plant Protection, Campus of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
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Department of Plant Protection, Campus of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.
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Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center of Kermanshah, AREEO, Kermanshah, Iran.
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Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, SU, EPHE, UA, Paris, France
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Buzulucká 1105, Hradec Králové 500 03, Czech Republic
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Sociedad Chilena de Entomología, Santiago, Chile
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Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
10.48311/jibs.12.02.213
Abstract
A comprehensive worldwide list of 425 species of the ladybird genus Diomus Mulsant, 1850, is provided, together with the number of countries occupied by each species in the major biogeographical regions. Thirteen of the species formally assigned to the genus must be confirmed. Also, records of Diomus species occurring in the Middle East are documented, and the genus Diomus is reported from Oman for the first time, based on a female specimen of an undetermined species. Findings exclude previous reports of D. rubidus (Motschulsky, 1837) from Turkey and D. anemicus Fürsch, 1960 from Palestine. We provide a distribution map of Diomus species in the Middle East and present morphological and morphometric characters based on light and electron microscopy. Finally, we propose the replacement name Diomus stajerovae González and Větrovec, nom. nov., for D. panamensis González and Větrovec, 2021, which is a junior homonym of D. panamensis Gorham, 1897.
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