In this paper we pursue the use of information measures (in particular, information diagrams) for the study of entanglement in symmetric multi-quDit systems. We use generalizations to $${U}(D)$$
U
(
D
)
of spin $${U}(2)$$
U
(
2
)
coherent states and their adaptation to parity (multicomponent Schrödinger cats), and we analyse one- and two-quDit reduced density matrices. We use these correlation measures to characterize quantum phase transitions occurring in Lipkin–Meshkov–Glick models of $$D=3$$
D
=
3
-level identical atoms, and we propose the rank of the corresponding reduced density matrix as a discrete order parameter.