Diaperis

Arboricolous habitats including pine forests, deciduous forests, floodplain forests, and forest edges. Associated with wood-decomposing polypore fungi on living or dying trees.

Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Documented from Slovakia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States (Vermont).

Mycophagous. At least one species, D. boleti, feeds on wood-decomposing polypore fungi including Fomitopsis betulina, Laetiporus sulphureus, and Cerioporus squamosus.

• Fomitopsis betulina - food sourcePolypore fungus on which D. boleti feeds
• Laetiporus sulphureus - food sourcePolypore fungus on which D. boleti feeds
• Cerioporus squamosus - food sourcePolypore fungus on which D. boleti feeds
• Betula sp. - habitatHost tree for associated fungi
• Cerasus avium - habitatHost tree for associated fungi
• Salix sp. - habitatHost tree for associated fungi
• Populus sp. - habitatHost tree for associated fungi
• Acer sp. - habitatHost tree for associated fungi

Infests polypore fungi. Serves as specific phoretic host for the mite Lasioseius boleti.

Mycophagous consumer of wood-decomposing fungi; host for phoretic mites.

• AllophasiaSome Diaperis species were formerly placed in this genus; taxonomic distinction requires examination of historical literature.
• SerraniaThe species formerly described as Diaperis viridula is now classified as Serrania viridula, indicating historical confusion between these genera.

• mycophagous
• darkling beetle
• fungus-associated
• phoretic host
• arboreal

• BugGuide
• Wikipedia
• GBIF taxonomy match
• iNaturalist taxon
• NCBI Taxonomy
• Catalogue of Life
• A new, morphologically and ecologically unusual Lasioseius mite (Acari: Blattisociidae) associated with Diaperis boleti (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) and wood-decomposing fungi in Slovakia