Genus Helea Latreille, 1804

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• Helea Latreille, P.A. 1804. Histoire naturelle, Générale et Particulière, des Crustacés et des Insectes. Paris : F. Dufart Vol. 10. [326].

  Type species:

   Heleus perforatus Latreille, 1817 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1817. Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. Nouvelle édition, tome 18. Paris : Déterville. [261].
• Heleus Latreille, P.A. 1817. Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. Nouvelle édition, tome 18. Paris : Déterville. [301] [emendation probably to avoid homonymy with Helea Meigen, 1800 (Diptera), but latter suppressed in 1963 by I.C.Z.N. Opinion 678].
• Helaeus Kirby, W. 1818. XXVIII. A description of several new species of insects collected in New Holland by Robert Brown, Esq. F.R.S. Lib. Linn. Soc. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 12: 454-482 pls XXI-XXIII [467] [unjustified emendation].
• Elaeus Gemminger, M. & Harold, E. von 1870. Catalogus Coleopterorum hucusque Descriptorum Synonymicus et Systematicus. Tom VII. Tenebrionidae, Nilionidae, Pythidae, Melandryidae, Lagriidae, Pedilidae, Anthicidae, Pyrochroidae, Mordellidae, Rhipidophoridae, Cantharidae, Oedemeridae. Monachi [Munich] : E.H. Gummi pp. 1801–2179 + [11]. [1969] [unjustified emendation].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Doyen, J.T., Matthews, E.G. & Lawrence, J.F. 1990. Classification and annotated checklist of the Australian genera of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera). Invertebrate Taxonomy 3(1989): 229-260 [232] (Helaeus Kirby)
• Matthews, E.G. 1993. Classification, relationships and distribution of the genera of Heleini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7: 1025-1095 [1084] (Elaeus Gemminger & Harold)

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS)

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