Helota
| Helota | |
|---|---|
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| Helota feai | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Helotidae |
| Genus: | MacLeay, 1825 |
| Diversity | |
| 23 species | |
Helota is a genus of beetles in the family Helotidae
Description
Etymology
Taxonomy
Species
Helota contains the following species:
- Helota acutipennis Ritsema, 1914 - China
- Helota brancuccii Lee, 2008 - Laos, Thailand
- Helota fairmairei Ritsema, 1889 - Nepal, India, Bhutan, Myanmar
- Helota feai Ritsema, 1891 - Myanmar, Laos, Thailand
- Helota fulviventris Kolbe, 1886 - China, Japan, Korea, USSR
- Helota gemmata Gorham, 1874 - Japan, Korea
- Helota gorhami Olliff, 1883 - China, South Korea
- Helota jentinkii Ritsema, 1906 - Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Helota kolbei Ritsema, 1889 - China
- Helota lesnei Ritsema, 1906 - China
- Helota longipes Ritsema, 1889 - India, Bhutan, Myanmar
- Helota mellii Westood, 1848 - [unknown]
- Helota ohbayashii Lee, 2007 - Thailand, Laos
- Helota rouyeri Ritsema, 1906 - Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Helota schuhi Lee, 2007 - China
- Helota scintillans Olliff, 1884 - Indonesia (Java)
- Helota servillei Hope, 1840 - India, Nepal, Bhutan, China
- Helota sinensis Olliff, 1883 - China, Vietnam
- Helota thibetana Westwood, 1842 - China, Nepal, Laos, Myanmar, Bhutan, Vietnam, West Malaysia
- Helota thoracica Ritsema, 1895 - China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Taiwan
- Helota vandepolli Ritsema, 1891 - China, India, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia (see also Helota lugubris)
- Helota ventralis Ritsema, 1891 - Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
- Helota vigorsii MacLeay, 1825 - West Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)
[also see H. vigorsii borneensis Ritsema, 1909 - Borneo]
References
- Lee, C.-F. 2007: Revision of family Helotidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea): I. Gemmata group of genus Helota. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 100 (5): 623–639. Full Text:PDF
- Lee, C.-F. 2008: Revision of family Helotidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) II: The Vigorsii group of genus Helota. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 101 (4): 722–742. Abstract: [1]
- Lee, C.-F. 2009: Revision of the family Helotidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) III: The Thibetana group and a checklist of Helota MacLeay species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 102: 48–59. Full Text: [2]
- Wegrzynowicz, P. 2007: Systematic position of the genus Tarrodacne Zhang, 1989 (Coleoptera: Helotidae non Erotylidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw), 57: 757–758. Abstract