Helota is a genus of beetles in the family Helotidae
Description
Etymology
Taxonomy
Species Helota contains the following species:
Helota acutipennis Ritsema, 1914 - China Helota brancuccii Lee, 2008 - Laos, Thailand Helota fairmairei Ritsema, 1889 - Nepal, India, Bhutan, Myanmar Helota feai Ritsema, 1891 - Myanmar, Laos, Thailand Helota fulviventris Kolbe, 1886 - China, Japan, Korea, USSR Helota gemmata Gorham, 1874 - Japan, Korea Helota gorhami Olliff, 1883 - China, South Korea Helota jentinkii Ritsema, 1906 - Indonesia (Sumatra) Helota kolbei Ritsema, 1889 - China Helota lesnei Ritsema, 1906 - China Helota longipes Ritsema, 1889 - India, Bhutan, Myanmar Helota mellii Westood, 1848 - [unknown] Helota ohbayashii Lee, 2007 - Thailand, Laos Helota rouyeri Ritsema, 1906 - Indonesia (Sumatra) Helota schuhi Lee, 2007 - China Helota scintillans Olliff, 1884 - Indonesia (Java) Helota servillei Hope, 1840 - India, Nepal, Bhutan, China Helota sinensis Olliff, 1883 - China, Vietnam Helota thibetana Westwood, 1842 - China, Nepal, Laos, Myanmar, Bhutan, Vietnam, West Malaysia Helota thoracica Ritsema, 1895 - China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Taiwan Helota vandepolli Ritsema, 1891 - China, India, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia (see also Helota lugubris) Helota ventralis Ritsema, 1891 - Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam Helota vigorsii MacLeay, 1825 - West Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Borneo)
References
2007: Revision of family Helotidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea): I. Gemmata group of genus Helota. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 100 (5): 623–639. Full Text:PDF 2008: Revision of family Helotidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) II: The Vigorsii group of genus Helota. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 101 (4): 722–742. Abstract: 2009: Revision of the family Helotidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) III: The Thibetana group and a checklist of Helota MacLeay species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 102: 48–59. Full Text: 2007: Systematic position of the genus Tarrodacne Zhang, 1989 (Coleoptera: Helotidae non Erotylidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw), 57: 757–758.