Diamerini Hagedorn, 1909

Buhroo, Abdul Ahad, 2024, A taxonomic monograph of subfamily Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the Western Himalaya, Zootaxa 5533 (1), pp. 1-82 : 18

Tribe Diamerini Hagedorn, 1909

Genus Sphaerotrypes Blandford, 1894

Sphaerotrypes species are diagnosed by the following morphological characters: body length: 1.5–5 mm; body very stout, sub globular; eyes completely divided into two parts; antennal scape usually elongate, club flat, sutures variable, apparently five or more in number marked by constrictions and or rows of setae; pronotum without asperities, lateral margins costate; scutellum visible, longer than wide; elytral base procurved and armed by crenulations; host: deciduous trees.

Key to the Western Himalayan species of Sphaerotrypes Blandford, 1894 (reproduced after Buhroo & Knížek, 2020)

1 Posterior margin of the elytra with somewhat distinct tubercles near apex; minute granules on anterior margin of pronotum; six or seven scattered transversely set erect setae on either side of median line close to base of pronotum..... S. querci Stebbing

- Posterior margin of the elytra without distinct tubercles; no granules on anterior margin of pronotum; only three longer transversely set setae on either side nearer to median line close to base of pronotum......... S. montanus Buhroo & Knížek