Heliocopris
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| Genus: | Heliocopris Hope, 1837
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Heliocopris (large dung beetles) is a genus of Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea.[2][3][4] Forty-seven of the fifty-two known species are found in Africa,[3] but some are found in southern and southeast Asia.[5]
The genus Heliocopris includes the following species:[6]
- Felsche, 1910
- Gillet, 1908
- Bates, 1868
- Janssens, 1943
- Heliocopris antenor (Olivier, 1789)
- Boheman, 1860
- Harold, 1871
- Kolbe, 1893
- Heliocopris bucephalus (Fabricius, 1775)
- Pokorny & Zidek, 2009
- Bates, 1868
- Janssens, 1939
- Felsche, 1901
- Lesne, 1906
- Roth, 1851
- Hope, 1842
- Guérin-Méneville, 1847
- Janssens, 1939
- Bates, 1868
- Felsche, 1907
- (Fabricius, 1801)
- Boheman, 1857
- Kolbe, 1904
- Ferreira, 1967
- Müller, 1941
- (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Heliocopris hamadryas (Fabricius, 1775)
- Harold, 1878
- Kolbe, 1893
- Felsche, 1907
- Gillet, 1911
- Waterhouse, 1891
- Klug, 1855
- Felsche, 1901
- Péringuey, 1901
- (Fabricius, 1775)
- Janssens, 1939
- Gillet, 1907
- Kolbe, 1893
- Kolbe, 1893
- Felsche, 1907
- Janssens, 1939
- Boheman, 1857
- Janssens, 1939
- (Fabricius, 1798)
- Janssens, 1939
- Harold, 1878
- Gillet, 1925
- Kolbe, 1893
- Kolbe, 1893
- Gillet, 1925
- Thomson, 1859
Notes[]
- ^ They have also been placed in the tribe , but Montreuil places them in Coprini. Montreuil, Olivier (1998). "Analyse phylogénétique et paraphylie des Coprini et Dichotomiini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Scénario biogéographique". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 34 (2): 135–148.
- ^ "Heliocopris" Nomen.at, Dictionary of Common (Vernacular) Names
- ^ a b "Heliocopris" Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- ^ "Heliocopris" National Center for Biotechnology Information
- ^ "Occurrence search: Genus: Heliocopris" National Center for Biotechnology Information
- ^ "Heliocopris" Encyclopedia of Life
Further reading[]
- Pokorný, Svatopluk; Zídek, Jiří and Werner, Karl (2009) Giant dung beetles of the genus Heliocopris (Scarabaeidae) Taita Publishers, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, ISBN 978-80-902734-0-5
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- Heliocopris
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