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Contribution to the knowledge of Diastatotropis Lacordaire including two resurrected names (Coleoptera: Anthribidae)
1Mendel University in Brno; Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology; Department of Forest Ecology; Zemědělská 3; CZ-613 00 Brno; Czech Republic; Municipal Museum of Ústí nad Labem; Natural History Department; Masarykova 1000/3; CZ-400 01 Ústí nad Labem; Czech Republic. anthribidae@gmail.com.
Abstract:
Diastatotropis striata Wolfrum, 1961 stat. rest. and Diastatotropis viridans (Fairmaire, 1897) stat. rest. are resurrected as valid names from synonymy with Diastatotropis crassicornis Waterhouse, 1882. Redescriptions, differential diagnosis, colour photographs of relevant types, a key to species and new data on the distributions are presented. Photographs of morphologically similar species are also provided.

