On the taxonomy of the dityline genera Diasclera Reitter, Dityloidea Fairmaire and Germain and Nerdanus Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Oedemeridae)
Author
Švihla, Vladimír
text
Zootaxa
2007
1619
45
51
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.179148
3af5092e-bc0e-4272-8cfc-8a9e0e8e3d32
1175-5326
179148
List of
Diasclera
species
Diasclera bicolor
(Horn, 1870)
,
comb. nov.
Distribution:
USA
: Oregon, California.
Diasclera cyanipennis
(Horn, 1870)
,
comb. nov.
Distribution:
USA
: California.
Diasclera obscura
(Le
Conte, 1854
)
,
comb. nov.
Distribution:
USA
: California, New
Mexico
, Texas, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado;
Mexico
: Durango.
Diasclera sibirica sibirica
(Gebler, 1830)
. Distribution:
Russia
: Krasnoyarsk reg., Tuva, Buryatia, Chita reg.; northern
Mongolia
.
Diasclera sibirica laevithorax
(Pic, 1915)
. Distribution:
Russia
: Primorye, Khabarovsk reg.;
China
: Heilongjiang;
North Korea
.
Diasclera viridescens viridescens
Reitter, 1913
. Distribution:
Azerbaijan
.
Disclera
viridescens
oxiana
Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1974. Distribution:
Tajikistan
.
Discussion.
The distribution of the genus
Diasclera
is disjunct, partially amphi-pacific, as that of other animal groups (e.g. order Grylloblattodea or beetle families
Cephaloidae
or
Eulichadidae
), with isolated species in Central Asia and Caucasus.