Diomus Mulsant, 1850

Duarte-De-Mélo, Jefferson, Almeida, Lúcia Massutti De & Lima, Iracilda Maria De Moura, 2025, A diversity panorama of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from Northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 5728 (3), pp. 451-495 : 468

Diomus Mulsant, 1850

Scymnus ( Diomus) Mulsant, 1850: 951 ; Gorham, 1897: 226; Korschefsky, 1931: 116. Diomus : Weise, 1895: 144; Gordon, 1976: 319; 1985: 315; 1987: 31–32; Gordon & Hilburn, 1990: 277; Gordon, 1999: 13; Vandenberg & Hanson, 2019: 262.

Amidellus Weise, 1923: 141 .

Type species: Coccinella thoracica Fabricius, 1801 ; by subsequent designation of Korschefsky (1931).

Distribution by States in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Maranhão; Ceará; Rio Grande do Norte; Pernambuco; Bahia; Alagoas.

Species from the Northeast Region of Brazil. Diomus boniface Gordon, 1999 ; Diomus caius Gordon, 1999 ; Diomus catherine Gordon, 1999 ; Diomus geniales Brèthes, 1924 ; Diomus leondai González, Ramos & Lemos, 2020 ; Diomus luke Gordon, 1999 ; Diomus magdalen Gordon, 1999 ; Diomus matthias Gordon, 1999 ; Diomus nabor Gordon, 1999 ; Diomus seminulus ( Mulsant, 1850) ; Diomus susanna Gordon, 1999 ; Diomus tenuis Brèthes, 1925 ; Diomus tucumanus Weise, 1905 ; Diomus ursula Gordon, 1999 .

Comments. Diomus is by far the most diverse genus in Brazil, with 130 species in total and fourteen of them occurring in NE Brazil ( Gordon 1999; Ramos et al. 2020).