Helmoreus

{{short description|Genus of beetles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image=Helmoreus sharpi lateral.jpg

|image_caption=Lateral view of Helmoreus sharpi

|taxon=Helmoreus

|authority = Holloway, 1982

|type_species=Anthribus sharpi

|type_species_authority=Broun, 1880

}}

Helmoreus is a genus of fungus weevil which was circumscribed by the New Zealand entomologist Beverley Holloway in 1982. The generic name honors the scientific illustrator Des Helmore. It is found in New Zealand, Australia, and New Caledonia. It is in the tribe Stenocerini.

{{As of|1998}}, species include:

References

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{{cite book |last1=Broun |first1=Thomas |title=Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera |volume = 1 |date=1880 |publisher=James Hughes |location=Wellington |page=546 |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23775848}}

{{cite book |last1=Holloway |first1=B. A. |title=Anthribidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) |url=https://biotaxa.org/fnz/issue/view/362 |date=1982 |publisher=Science Information Division, DSTR |location=Wellington |isbn=978-0-477-06703-4|pages=66–69|series=Fauna of New Zealand|volume=3}}

{{cite book |last1=May |first1=Brenda M. |title=Larvae of Curculionoidea. (Insecta: Coleoptera): a systematic overview |url=https://biotaxa.org/fnz/article/view/1787/ |date=1993 |publisher=Manaaki Whenua Press |location=Lincoln, NZ |page=34 |series=Fauna of New Zealand |volume=28}}

{{cite journal |last1=Kuschel |first1=G. |title=The subfamily Anthribinae in New Caledonia and Vanuatu (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) |journal=New Zealand Journal of Zoology |date=1998 |volume=25 |issue=4 |pages=353–458 |doi=10.1080/03014223.1998.9518163 |doi-access=}}

{{cite book |last1=Lawrence |first1=John F. |last2=Ślipiński |first2=Adam |title=Morphology, Classification and Keys |series=Australian Beetles |volume=1 |date=2013 |publisher=CSIRO |location=Collingwood, VIC |isbn=978-0-643-09729-2|page=417}}

{{cite book |last1=Alonso-Zarazaga |first1=Miguel A. |last2=Lyal |first2=Christopher H. C. |title=A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea. (Insecta: Coleoptera). (Excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae) |date=1999 |publisher=Entomopraxis |location=Barcelona |isbn=84-605-9994-9 |pages=18, 35}}

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Category:Anthribidae

Category:Beetles of Oceania

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