''Heliotaurus'' is a genus of comb-clawed beetles in the family

Tenebrionidae Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae, comprising over 20,000 species in a cosmopolitan distribution. Taxonomy ''Tenebrio'' is the Latin generic name that Carl Linnaeus assigned to some flour beetles ...

. There are at least six described species in ''Heliotaurus''. They are found in the

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and

tropical Africa The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. It was formerly known as the Ethiopi ...

Species

These species belong to the genus ''Heliotaurus'': * '' Heliotaurus crassidactylus'' Seidlitz, 1896 * '' Heliotaurus ruficollis'' (Fabricius, 1781) * '' Heliotaurus rufithorax'' Reitter, 1906 * '' Heliotaurus sanguinicollis'' Reitter, 1906 * '' Heliotaurus seidlitzi'' Reitter, 1906 * '' Heliotaurus tenuipes'' Seidlitz, 1896

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* Tenebrionoidea genera {{tenebrionidae-stub