Genus Helochares Mulsant, 1844

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• Helochares Mulsant, E. 1844. Histoire Naturelle des Coléoptères de France. Palpicornes. (errata et addenda on p. 197). Paris : L. Maison vii 197 pp. pl. 1. [197] [official name no. 1601, see ICZN 1964. Opinion 710. Enhydrus Laporte, 1834 (Insecta, Coleoptera): Validated under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 242–245; replacement name for Helophilus Mulsant, 1844].

  Type species:

   Dytiscus lividus Forster, 1771 by subsequent designation, see Thomson, C.G. 1859. Skandinaviens Coleoptera synoptiskt bearbetade. Lund : Berlingska Boktryckeriet Tom 1 394 pp. [18].

  Secondary source:

   ICZN 1964. Opinion 710. Enhydrus Laporte, 1834 (Insecta, Coleoptera): Validated under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 242-245.
• Helophilus Mulsant, E. 1844. Histoire Naturelle des Coléoptères de France. Palpicornes. (errata et addenda on p. 197). Paris : L. Maison vii 197 pp. pl. 1. [132] [rejected name no. 1707, see ICZN 1964. Opinion 710. Enhydrus Laporte, 1834 (Insecta, Coleoptera): Validated under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 242–245; junior homonym of Helophilus Leach, 1817].

  Secondary source:

   ICZN 1964. Opinion 710. Enhydrus Laporte, 1834 (Insecta, Coleoptera): Validated under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 242-245.
• Enhydrus Macleay, W.S. 1825. Annulosa Javanica, or an attempt to illustrate the natural affinities and analogies of the insects collected in Java by Thomas Horsfield, M.D. F.L. & G.S. and deposited by him in the Museum of the Honourable East-India Company. London : Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen 52 pp. 1 pl. [35] [rejected name no. 1704, see ICZN 1964. Opinion 710. Enhydrus Laporte, 1834 (Insecta, Coleoptera): Validated under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 242–245].

  Secondary source:

   ICZN 1964. Opinion 710. Enhydrus Laporte, 1834 (Insecta, Coleoptera): Validated under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 242-245.
• Helocharis Thomson, C.G. 1859. Skandinaviens Coleoptera synoptiskt bearbetade. Lund : Berlingska Boktryckeriet Tom 1 394 pp. [18] [incorrect subsequent spelling].
• Peloxenus Motschulsky, V. von 1845. Remarques sur la collection de coléoptères russes de Victor deMotschulsky. Article 1. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 18(1): 1-127 [549] [replacement name for Pylophilus Motschulsky, 1845].
• Helophygas Motschulsky, V. von 1853. Hydrocanthares de la Russie. Helsingfors : Société de Litérature Finnoise 15 pp. [11] [rejected name no. 1708, see ICZN 1964. Opinion 710. Enhydrus Laporte, 1834 (Insecta, Coleoptera): Validated under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 242–245; replacement name for Helophilus Mulsant, 1844].

  Secondary source:

   ICZN 1964. Opinion 710. Enhydrus Laporte, 1834 (Insecta, Coleoptera): Validated under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 242-245.
• Pylophilus Motschulsky, V. von 1845. Remarques sur la collection de coléoptères russes de Victor deMotschulsky. Article 1. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 18(1): 1-127 [32].

  Type species:

   Hydrophilus griseus Fabricius, 1787 (=Dytiscus lividus Forster, 1771) by monotypy.
• Hydrobaticus Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [131].

  Type species:

   Hydrobaticus tristis Macleay, 1871 by subsequent designation, see Orchymont, A. d' 1943. Nouvelles notes sur les Helochares (Hydrobaticus). (Coleoptera Palpicornia Hydrophilidae). Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle du Belgique 19(20): 1-12 [2].
• Graphelochares Kuwert, A. 1890. Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren. XIX. Heft. Hydrophilidae. I. Abteilung: Hydrophilini. Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn 28: 1-121 [38].

  Type species:

   Helophilus melanophthalmus Mulsant, 1844 by monotypy.
• Grapidelochares Ganglbauer, L. 1904. Die Kafer von Mitteleuropa. Wien. : Karl Gerold's Sohn Vol. 4(1) 286 pp. [248] [unjustified emendation of Graphelochares Kuwert, 1890].
• Helocharimorphus Girón, J. & Short, A. 2021. The Acidocerinae (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae): taxonomy, classification, and catalog of species. ZooKeys 1045: 1-236 [72].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Girón, J. & Short, A. 2021. The Acidocerinae (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae): taxonomy, classification, and catalog of species. ZooKeys 1045: 1-236 [71]

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Watts, C.H.S. 1995. Revision of the Australasian genera Agraphydrus Régimbart, Chasmogenus Sharp and Helochares Mulsant (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 28(1): 113-130 [118]

Introduction

In the most recent taxonomic treatment, Girón & Short (2021) redefined the genus, provided an updated diagnosis and synonymised the former subgenera Helocharimorphus and Hydrobaticus.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

General References

Girón, J. & Short, A. 2021. The Acidocerinae (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae): taxonomy, classification, and catalog of species. ZooKeys 1045: 1-236

Short, A.E.Z. & Fikacek, M. 2013. Molecular phylogeny, evolution and classification of the Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera). Systematic Entomology 38: 723-752 [741] (herein transferred from former position in subfamily Hydrophilinae, tribe Hydrophilini, subtribe Acidocerina)

History of changes