Helcophorus Fairmaire, 1881

KAZANTSEV, SERGEY V. & PERKOVSKY, EVGENY E., 2022, Imprint of a Helcophorus Fairmaire, 1881: the first net-winged beetle (Coleoptera Lycidae) from Rovno amber, Zootaxa 5128 (1), pp. 84-90 : 85

Genus Helcophorus Fairmaire, 1881

Helcophorus Fairmaire, 1881 : cxxix.

Type species: Helcophorus miniatus Fairmaire, 1881 (original designation).

= Hiekeolycus Winkler, 1987: 66 .

Type species: Hiekeolycus berendti Winkler, 1987 (original designation): Kazantsev, 1995.

Remarks. Along with Pseudaplatopterus and Kolibaceum, the genus Helcophorus has both fossil and modern representatives. However, unlike in Pseudaplatopterus and Kolibaceum, whose living species are referred to separate subgenera ( Eropterus Green, 1951 , a subgenus of Pseudaplatopterus , and Laterialis Kazantsev, 1990 and Tricostaeptera Kazantsev, 1997 , subgenera of Kolibaceum), both extinct and extant species have been discovered in both subgenera of Helcophorus ( Kazantsev, 2015; 2020).

Distribution. Southeast of Palaearctic and north of Oriental realms. Fossil taxa known from Baltic and Rovno amber ( Fig. 5 ).

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FIGURE 5. Map of distribution of Helcophorus species: orange circles – H. (s. str.) species; red-and-black circles – H. (Thibeteros) species (after Kazantsev, 2015, modified).