What is "didymus"

Didymus may refer to:

• Thomas the Apostle or "Didymus", both names meaning "twin" in Aramaic and Greek respectively, is the most well-known Didymus due to his role in early Christian history
• Didymus Chalcenterus (c. 63 BCE – 10 CE), Hellenistic scholar and grammarian
• Didymus the Blind (313–398), ecclesiastical writer of Alexandria
• Didymus the Musician, music theorist in Alexandria of the 1st century AD
• Theodora and Didymus, 4th century Christian saints
• Didymus Mutasa, Minister of National Security in Zimbabwe
• Didymus (genus), a genus of weevils found in New Zealand, the Kermadec and Norfolk Islands.
• Leptodactylus didymus, a species of frog in Bolivia and Peru
• A member of the House of Theodosius and distant relative of the Roman emperor Flavius Augustus Honorius, of whom little is known.
• Sir Didymus, a fictional character from the movie Labyrinth.

Didymus is a genus of beetle known as weevils in the family Curculionidae. The genus contains the following species:

• Didymus bicostatus
• Didymus erroneous
• Didymus impexus
• Didymus intutus
• Didymus metrosideri
• Didymus setosus

The type species for this genus is Acalles intutus Pascoe, 1876 by original designation. Species from this genus are found in New Zealand, the Kermadec and the Norfolk Islands.