Dinidoridae

Coridiinae Schumacher, 1924 Dinidoridae is a small family of hemipteran "true bugs" comprising about sixteen genera and a hundred species the Hemiptera suborder Heteroptera.

[3] Most members of the family Dinidoridae are large and robust in build; the bodies of some species may exceed 27 mm in length.

In most genera trichobothria occur in pairs on the third to the seventh abdominal sterna, but Eumenotes species have only one trichobothrium per segment.

Subsequent authorities such as Lethierry and Severin applied the name Dinidoridae, but in a subfamily sense in spite of the implication of the suffix "-dae".

They may be distinguished as follows: BioLib[5] lists six tribes (and also the unplaced fossil genus †Dinidorites Cockerell, 1921) in the two subfamilies: The Dinidorinae Stål, 1868 includes the Dinidorini, which comprises tens of species, some with four-segmented and some with five-segmented antennae.

In the subfamily Megymeninae Amyot & Serville, 1843 the lateral margins of the abdomen and commonly also of the head and pronotum are produced into lobes, tubercles, or spines.

Coridius spissus , a typical member of the subfamily Dinidorinae . [ 1 ]
Megymenum affine , an Australasian member of the subfamily Megymeninae