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| Helocerus | |
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| Anthrenus fuscus, a common species from the subgenus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Family: | Dermestidae |
| Genus: | Anthrenus |
| Subgenus: | Helocerus Mulsant & Rey, 1868 |
| Species | |
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]
Species
[edit]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
[edit]- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Anthrenus Bestimmungstabelle (Anthrenus identification table)". 2024. Archived from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- ↑ Háva, Jiří (2023). "World Dermestidae. Subfamily Megatominae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ↑ Herrmann, Andreas (2024). "Dermestidae (Abbildungen)". Archived from the original on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
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