Diplocotidus formicola

Diplocotidus formicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Beetle
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Family:	Ptinidae
Genus:	Diplocotidus
Species:	D. formicola
Binomial name
Diplocotidus formicola Péringuey, 1899

Distribution

South Africa

Biology

Ant hosts: Lepisiota carbonaria, Anoplolepis custodiens, Anoplolepis steingroeveri

REFERENCES

• Bell and Philips. 2008. A revision of the South African myrmecophile Diplocotidus (Coleoptera: Ptinidae). African Entomology 16(1):33

• 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.