Helopeltarium

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Helopeltarium
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Dorsal view of H. ferrugineum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Hydrophilidae
Genus: Helopeltarium
d’Orchymont, 1943
Species:
H. ferrugineum
Binomial name
Helopeltarium ferrugineum
d’Orchymont, 1943 [1]

Helopeltarium is a genus of water scavenger beetle in the family Hydrophilidae represented by only one species. It is known only from Myanmar. [2] [3]

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Taxonomy

The genus Helopeltarium was described for the first time by Armand d’Orchymont in 1943. [1] The genus is represented by only one species known from two specimens.

Description

Small beetles (2.8 mm), strongly dorsoventrally flattened, orange-brown in coloration; pronotum and elytra laterally explanate. A more complete diagnosis was presented by Jennifer C. Girón and Andrew Edward Z. Short. [2]

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 3 d’Orchymont, A. (1943). "Palpicornia (Coleoptera) VI". Bulletin du Musée royal d'histoire na-turelle de Belgique. 19 (60): 1–12.
  2. 1 2 Girón, Jennifer C.; Short, Andrew Edward Z. (18 June 2021). "The Acidocerinae (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae): taxonomy, classification, and catalog of species". ZooKeys (1045): 1–236. Bibcode:2021ZooK.1045....1G. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1045.63810 . ISSN   1313-2970. PMC   8233300 . PMID   34228772.
  3. ↑ Hansen, Michael (1999). World Catalogue of Insects Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea (s. str.) (Coleoptera). Stenstrup: Apollo Books. ISBN   8788757315.
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