Global distribution of the genus Diomus Mulsant (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), with new findings from the Middle East | ||
| Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 12 February 2026 PDF (5.37 M) | ||
| Document Type: Research Article | ||
| DOI: 10.48311/jibs.12.02.213 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Amir Biranvand1; Fatemeh Romasi2; Naser Moeini Naghadeh* 3; Farzad Jalilian4; Romain Nattier5; Jaroslav Větrovec6; Guillermo González7; Oldřich Nedvěd8 | ||
| 1Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University, Khoramabad, Iran. | ||
| 2Department of Plant Protection, Campus of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran | ||
| 3Department of Plant Protection, Campus of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. | ||
| 4Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center of Kermanshah, AREEO, Kermanshah, Iran. | ||
| 5Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, SU, EPHE, UA, Paris, France | ||
| 6Buzulucká 1105, Hradec Králové 500 03, Czech Republic | ||
| 7Sociedad Chilena de Entomología, Santiago, Chile | ||
| 8Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic | ||
| 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. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Checklist; Ladybird beetles; Biogeography; New record; Junior homonym; New name | ||
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