Helocerus

Helocerus is a subgenus of the genus Anthrenus of the subfamily Megatominae within the family of skin beetles.[1] Subgenus is distinguished by antennae with 5 segments (sometimes 6 in females).[2]

Helocerus
Anthrenus fuscus, a common species from the subgenus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Dermestidae
Genus: Anthrenus
Subgenus: Helocerus
Mulsant & Rey, 1868
Species

See text.

Species

According to World Dermestidae catalogue, these species currently belong to subgenus Helocerus:[3][4]

  • Anthrenus cechovskyi (Háva & Kadej, 2015) – Nepal
  • Anthrenus fuscus (Olivier, 1789) – Europe; North America (Canada, United States); Laos; Russia; Saudi Arabia; Morocco; Japan (Bonin Is.); Introduced to Indonesia (Sumatra); St. Helena Islands
  • Anthrenus minutus (Erichson, 1846) – Corsica; Portugal; Sardinia; Spain. Introduced to Sudan
  • Anthrenus polonicus (Mroczkowski, 1951) – Belarus; Bulgaria; Czech Republic; Slovakia; "Yugoslavia"; United Kingdom; Estonia; Germany; Hungary; Latvia; Russia (Astrakhan, Dagestan, Krasnodar, Stavropol, Ural); Ukraine;

References
  1. Háva, Jiří (2023). "World Dermestidae. Genera and subgenera division of Dermestidae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 May 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  2. "Anthrenus Bestimmungstabelle (Anthrenus identification table)". 2024. Archived from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  3. Háva, Jiří (2023). "World Dermestidae. Subfamily Megatominae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  4. Herrmann, Andreas (2024). "Dermestidae (Abbildungen)". Archived from the original on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.


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