Genus Rhyzodiastes Fairmaire, 1895 ẘṣä甲Ǥ

[48 species; Oriental, Australian and eastern Neotropical Regions]

Fairmaire, 1895: 11 ( Rhyzodiastes; description; 2 spp.); Bell & Bell, 1978: 61 ( Rhyzodiastes; new combinations for 22 spp.; characteristics; distribution); Bell & Bell, 1985: 6 ( Rhyzodiastes; characteristics; key to subgenera; illustrations); Bell, 2003: 78 ( Rhyzodiastes; list; 2 spp.; distribution); Beutel, 2005: 146 ( Rhyzodiastes; in generic list; distribution); Lorenz, 2005: 156 ( Rhyzodiastes; world list; 44 spp.); Beutel, 2016: 191 ( Rhyzodiastes; in generic list; distribution); Huber, Marggi & L̂bl, 2017: 30 ( Rhyzodiastes; list; 4 spp.; distribution).

Type species: Rhyzodes parumcostatus Fairmaire, 1868, by original designation.

Synonymy. Rhysiodiastes Grouvelle, 1903: 100 ( Clinidium (Rhysiodiastes); misspelled name; key to species).

Rhysodiastes Grouvelle, 1903: 90 ( Clinidium (Rhysodiastes); misspelled name; key to genera), 147 (list); Miwa, 1934: 256 (Clynidium (Rhysodiastes)).