Helius, Lepeletiere and Serville, 1828

Kopeć, Katarzyna, Kania, Iwona & Krzemiński, Wiesław, 2016, New and little known crane-fly species of the genera Helius, Elephantomyia and Toxorhina (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Dominican and Mexican amber, Palaeontologia Electronica 13 (8), pp. 1-14 : 3

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Helius
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Genus HELIUS Lepeletiere and Serville, 1828 View in CoL

Type species. Helius longirostris ( Meigen, 1818) View in CoL .

The genus is represented by more than 240 extant species, occurring mainly in the Oriental region ( Oosterbroek, 2015). Almost 50 species are represented in Neotropic and Australian and Oceanian, over 20 species in Palearctic and Afrotropic, but only four species are reported from the Nearctic region.

Until recently, 20 fossil species had been described, mainly from Eocene Baltic amber ( Loew, 1850, 1851; Meunier, 1906; Alexander, 1931; Krzemiński 1985, 1993; Podenas, 2002; Kania, 2014), but also from Early Cretaceous of Botswana ( Rayner and Waters, 1990), Burma ( Ribeiro, 2003), Lebanon ( Kania et al., 2013; Krzemiński et al., 2014) and Eocene/Oligocene (Krzemiński, 1991), Oligocene of Germany ( Statz, 1934, 1944), Oligocene Dominican amber ( Podenas and Poinar, 2001), Miocene of Russia ( Krzemiński, 2002), Miocene of Mexico ( Podenas and Poinar, 2012).

Alexander, C. P. 1931. Crane flies of the Baltic Amber (Diptera). Bernstein-Forschungen, 2: 1 - 135.

Kania, I., Krzeminski, W., and Azar, D. 2013. The oldest representative of Helius Lepeletier & Serville 1828 (Limoniidae, Diptera) from Lebanese amber (Early Cretaceous). Insect Systematic & Evolution, 44: 1 - 8. Available at: http: // booksandjournals. brillonline. com / content / journals / 10.1163 / 1876312 x- 44032093

Kania, I. 2014. Subfamily Limoniinae Speiser, 1909 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Baltic amber (Eocene): the genus Helius Lepeletier & Serville, 1828. Zootaxa, 3814 (3): 333 - 352. doi: 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3814.3.2

Krzeminski, W. 1985. Limoniidae (Diptera, Nematocera) from Baltic amber (in the collection of the Museum of the Earth in Warsaw). Part I. Subfamily Limoniinae. Prace Muzeum Ziemi, 37: 113 - 117.

Krzeminski, W. 1993. Fossil Tipulomorpha (Diptera, Nematocera) from Baltic amber (Upper Eocene). - Revision of the genus Helius Lepeletier et Serville (Limoniidae). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 35: 597 - 601.

Krzeminski, W. 2002. Three new species of the genus Helius Lepeletier & Serville (Diptera, Limoniidae) from the Middle Miocene of Stavropol (northern Caucasus, Russia). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 45 (4): 317 - 320.

Krzeminski, W., Kania, I., and Azar, D. 2014. The Early Cretaceous evidence of rapid evolution of the genus Helius Lepeletier & Serville 1828 (Limoniidae, Diptera). Cretaceous Research, 48: 96 - 101.

Loew, H. 1850. Uber den Bernstein Und die Bernsteinfauna. Program der Keiserischen Realschule Meseritz, pp. 1 - 44. (In German)

Loew, H. 1851. Beschreibung einiger neuen Tipularia terricola. Linnaea Entomologica, 5: 385 - 418. (In German)

Meigen, J. W. 1818. Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insecten. Erster Theil. F. W. Forstmann, Aachen. (In German)

Meunier, F. 1906. Monographie des Tipulidae et des Dixidae de l'ambre de la Baltique. Annales des Science Naturelle Zoologie, 4: 349 - 401. (In German)

Oosterbroek, P. 2015. Catalogue of the Crane-flies of the World. (Diptera, Tipuloidea: Pediciidae, Limoniidae, Cylindrotomidae, Tipulidae). Available at: http: // nlbif. eti. uva. nl / ccw / index. php

Podenas, S. and Poinar, G. O., Jr. 2001. New crane flies (Diptera: Tipulidae, Limoniidae) from Dominican and Mexican amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 103 (4): 863 - 878.

Podenas, S. 2002. New species of Helius crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Baltic amber (Eocene). Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Palaontologischen Institut der Universitat Hamburg, 86: 229 - 238.

Podenas, S. and Poinar, G. O., Jr. 2012. New shortpalped crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Mexican amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 114 (3): 347 - 371.

Rayner, R. J. and Waters, S. B. 1990. A Cretaceous crane-fly (Diptera: Tipulidae): 93 million years of stasis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 99: 309 - 318.

Ribeiro, G. C. 2003. A new fossil Helius (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Burmese amber. Studia Dipterologica, 9 (2): 403 - 408.

Statz, G. 1934. Neue Tipulidenfunde aus den Braunkohlen-Schiefern von Rott am Siebengebirge. Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen der Verein fur Natur und Heimatkunde, 1 (3): 90 - 106. (In German)

Statz, G. 1944. Neue Dipteren (Nematocera) aus dem Oberoligocan von Rott. III. Familie Limnobiidae (Stelzmucken). IV. Familie: Tipulidae (Schnaken). V. Familie: Culicidae (Stechmucken). Palaeontographica, (A), 95: 93 - 120. (In German)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Limoniidae