Heliocopris

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]

Heliocopris
Heliocopris dominus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:
Scarabaeinae
Tribe:
Coprini[1]
Genus:
Heliocopris

Hope, 1837
Species

See text

The genus Heliocopris includes the following species:[6]

  • Heliocopris alatus Felsche, 1910
  • Heliocopris anadematus Gillet, 1908
  • Heliocopris andersoni Bates, 1868
  • Heliocopris anguliceps Janssens, 1943
  • Heliocopris antenor (Olivier, 1789)
  • Heliocopris atropos Boheman, 1860
  • Heliocopris beccarii Harold, 1871
  • Heliocopris biimpressus Kolbe, 1893
  • Heliocopris bucephalus (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Heliocopris camerunus Pokorny & Zidek, 2009
  • Heliocopris colossus Bates, 1868
  • Heliocopris corniculatus Janssens, 1939
  • Heliocopris coronatus Felsche, 1901
  • Heliocopris cuneifer Lesne, 1906
  • Heliocopris densissa Roth, 1851
  • Heliocopris dianae Hope, 1842
  • Heliocopris dilloni Guérin-Méneville, 1847
  • Heliocopris dolosus Janssens, 1939
  • Heliocopris dominus Bates, 1868
  • Heliocopris erycoides Felsche, 1907
  • Heliocopris eryx (Fabricius, 1801)
  • Heliocopris faunus Boheman, 1857
  • Heliocopris felschei Kolbe, 1904
  • Heliocopris fonsecai Ferreira, 1967
  • Heliocopris furcithorax Müller, 1941
  • Heliocopris gigas (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Heliocopris hamadryas (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Heliocopris hamifer Harold, 1878
  • Heliocopris haroldi Kolbe, 1893
  • Heliocopris helleri Felsche, 1907
  • Heliocopris hermes Gillet, 1911
  • Heliocopris hunteri Waterhouse, 1891
  • Heliocopris japetus Klug, 1855
  • Heliocopris kolbei Felsche, 1901
  • Heliocopris marshalli Péringuey, 1901
  • Heliocopris midas (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Heliocopris mimus Janssens, 1939
  • Heliocopris minos Gillet, 1907
  • Heliocopris mutabilis Kolbe, 1893
  • Heliocopris myrmidon Kolbe, 1893
  • Heliocopris neptuniformis Felsche, 1907
  • Heliocopris neptunoides Janssens, 1939
  • Heliocopris neptunus Boheman, 1857
  • Heliocopris pauliani Janssens, 1939
  • Heliocopris pirmal (Fabricius, 1798)
  • Heliocopris quinqueangulatus Janssens, 1939
  • Heliocopris samson Harold, 1878
  • Heliocopris sirius Gillet, 1925
  • Heliocopris solitarius Kolbe, 1893
  • Heliocopris staudingeri Kolbe, 1893
  • Heliocopris sylvanus Gillet, 1925
  • Heliocopris tyrannus Thomson, 1859
  • Heliocopris andersoni
  • Heliocopris colossus
  • Heliocopris japetus

Notes
  1. They have also been placed in the tribe Dichotomiini, 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.
  2. "Heliocopris" Nomen.at, Dictionary of Common (Vernacular) Names
  3. "Heliocopris" Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
  4. "Heliocopris" National Center for Biotechnology Information
  5. "Occurrence search: Genus: Heliocopris" National Center for Biotechnology Information
  6. "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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