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Genus Helops

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
Family Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles)
Subfamily Tenebrioninae
Tribe Helopini
Genus Helops
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
a few spp. recently moved from Helops to Nalassus and Doyenellus
needs revision(1)
Explanation of Names
Helops Fabricius 1775
Numbers
35 spp. in our area, another 30 in Mesoamerica(2), many in the Old World; large genus with the greatest number of described species in North America(3)
Range
subcosmopolitan; most spp. occur from w. NA to Central America, just 4 spp. east of TX(3); one sp. (H. blandi) ranges into se. Canada(4) and 2 spp. into sw. Canada(2)
Remarks
Not yet in guide:
H. angustus (CA)
H. blaisdelli Casey 1891 (CA)
H. cylindriformis Casey 1891 (NM)
H. discretus LeConte 1866 (TX)
H. obtusangulus Blaisdell 1921 (CA)
H. politus Say 1826 (FL)
H. seriatus (Allard 1877) (CA)
H. strigicollis Horn 1885 (CA)
H. tristis Palisot de Beauvois 1817 (SC)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America
Yves Bousquet, Donald B. Thomas, Patrice Bouchard, Aaron D. Smith, Rolf L. Aalbu, M. Andrew Johnston, Warren E. Steiner Jr. 2018. ZooKeys 728: 1-455.
3.Flightless beetles in Appalachian “deserts”: studies on the distribution and localized habitats of some ... Tenebrionidae
Steiner W.E. 1999. Virginia Mus. Nat. Hist. Special Publication 7: 125-144.
4.The Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada
Majka C.G., Bouchard P., Bousquet Y. 2008. Can. Entomol. 140: 690‒713.
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 12 October, 2023 - 11:10am

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