Diplocotes

There are twenty species in this myrmecophilous genus of Ptinidae.

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List of Diplocotes and their Host Ants

Genus and species	Author and Year	Ant Host	Distribution	Notes
Diplocotes apicalis	(Oke, 1926)	Iridomyrmex	Australia
Diplocotes armicollis	Lea, 1910	ants	Australia
Diplocotes brevipennis	(Pic, 1909)	ants	Australia
Diplocotes carinaticeps	(Lea, 1919)	Crematogaster laeviceps, Iridomyrmex conifer	Australia
Diplocotes crassicornis	Oke, 1932	ants	Australia
Diplocotes cuneiformis	(Oke, 1926)	Iridomyrmex rufoniger	Australia
Diplocotes familiaris	(Olliff, 1886)	Papyrius nitidus, Rhytidoponera metallica	Australia
Diplocotes foveata	(Lea, 1917)	ants	Australia
Diplocotes foveicollis	Olliff, 1886	Iridomyrmex conifer	Australia
Diplocotes howittanus	Westwood, 1869	ants	Australia
Diplocotes intricata	(Lea, 1917)	Crematogaster, Iridomyrmex	Australia
Diplocotes kingii	(Westwood, 1869)	Iridomyrmex	Australia
Diplocotes laticornis	(Lea, 1905)	ants	Australia
Diplocotes longicornis	(Lea, 1919)	Crematogaster laeviceps, Iridomyrmex	Australia
Diplocotes metallica	(Lea, 1917)	Iridomyrmex	Australia
Diplocotes minuta	Oke, 1928	Rhytidoponera	Australia
Diplocotes myrmecophila	(Lea, 1917)	Oecophylla smaragdina, Rhytidoponera hilli	Australia
Diplocotes pilosus	(Mjöberg, 1916)	ants	Australia
Diplocotes similis	(Oke, 1928)	Crematogaster laeviceps	Australia
Diplocotes strigicollis	Lea, 1910	Iridomyrmex	Australia

REFERENCES

• Lawrence, J.F. and Hans Reichardt. 1969. The myrmecophilous Ptinidae Coleoptera with a key to Australian species, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College,138:1-27.