Genus Diastellopalpus van Lansberge, 1886

Diastellopalpus van Lansberge, 1886: 91; van Lansberge 1887: 110; Bates 1888: 240; Kolbe 1893: 147–151; Kolbe 1901: 72; Felsche 1901: 154; Péringuey 1901: 109, 265; d’Orbigny 1902: 18, 304; d’Orbigny 1904: 328, 330; d’Orbigny 1908: 202, 206; d’Orbigny 1913: 51, 577, 720; d’Orbigny 1914: 45–460; d’Orbigny 1915: 399; Marcus 1914: 201; Marcus 1920: 177, 189, 196; Marcus 1921: 163, 177; Gillet 1927: 260–261; Ferreira 1965: 1176, 1236; Ferreira 1967: 429, 478–479; Ferreira 1972: 545–546; Cambefort & Mauchamp 1980: 177, 180; Walter 1989: 6; Cambefort & Walter 1991: 407–408; Moretto 1999: 33; Josso & Prévost 2000: 9, 10, 17, 101, 107, 114, 116; Davis et al. 2008: 184–185, 188, 191, 196, 200, 203, 227; Scholtz et al. 2009: 235, 266, 269, 271, 274, 538; Davis & Scholtz 2010: 407–410, 416, 418, 421; Branco 2011: 13; Walter 2013: 15, 17; Josso & Prévost 2014: 19, 22; Gillet & Barr 2018: 433, 435, 437; Davis et al. 2020: 441.

Type species: Scarabaeus tridens Fabricius, 1871, by subsequent designation (Davis et al. 2008: 193).