''Helops'' is a genus of ''darkling beetles'' (insects belonging to 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 ...
) in the subfamily
Tenebrioninae
Tenebrioninae is the largest subfamily of the darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae), containing flour beetles, among others. Tenebrioninae contains more than 20 tribes.
Description
Adults
Adults are robust, mid-sized beetles that typically have e ...
.
Species
* ''
Helops aereus'' Germar, 1824
* ''
Helops atticus'' Redtenbach in Ungern, 1867†
* ''
Helops cisteloides'' Germar
* ''
Helops coeruleus'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''
Helops glabriventris'' Reitter, 1885
* ''
Helops gracilis'' Bland, 1863
* ''
Helops meissneri'' Heer, 1847†
* ''
Helops molassicus'' Heer, 1883†
* ''
Helops rossii'' Germar, 1817
* ''
Helops thoracicus'' Grimm, 1991
* ''
Helops wetteravicus'' Heyden, 1865†
References
External links
BiolibFauna Europaea
Tenebrioninae
Tenebrionidae genera
Beetles of Europe
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