Heleini Explained

Heleini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are more than 40 genera in Heleini, found in Australasia.

Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Heleini:

• Agastenes R. Lucas, 1920
• Aglypta Gebien, 1908
• Amarygmimus Bates, 1873
• Amphianax Bates, 1873
• Asphalus Pascoe, 1868
• Atoreuma Gebien, 1941
• Bassianus Matthews & Doyen, 1989
• Bolbophanes Carter, 1913
• Boreosaragus Matthews, 1993
• Brises Pascoe, 1869
• Byallius Pascoe, 1869
• Camponotiphilus Lea, 1914
• Celibe Boisduval, 1835
• Cerodolus Sharp, 1886
• Cillibus Matthews, 1993
• Cyphaleus Westwood, 1841
• Dysarchus Pascoe, 1866
• Edylius Champion, 1894
• Emcephalus W. Kirby, 1828
• Helea Latreille, 1804
• Hemicyclus Westwood, 1841
• Meneristes Pascoe, 1869
• Mimopeus Pascoe, 1866
• Mithippia Pascoe, 1869
• Mitrothorax Carter, 1914
• Nyctozoilus Guérin-Méneville, 1831
• Olisthaena Erichson, 1842
• Onotrichus Carter, 1911
• Ospidus Pascoe, 1866
• Pachycoelia Boisduval, 1835
• Paraphanes W.J. MacLeay, 1887
• Phanechloros Matthews & Bouchard, 2008
• Platyphanes Westwood, 1849
• Prophanes Westwood, 1849
• Pseudhelops Guérin-Méneville, 1841
• Pterohelaeus Brême, 1842
• Saragus Erichson, 1842
• Sloanea Carter, 1916
• Styrus Bates, 1873
• Sympetes Pascoe, 1866
• Trichosaragus Blackburn, 1890

Further reading

• Book: Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. 1861. LeConte . J. L.. Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. 136. 978-0665100550. 10.5962/bhl.title.38459.
• Book: American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. 2002. Somerby . Ronald E.. Thomas . Donald B.. Triplehorn . Charles A.. Arnett . Ross H. Jr.. Thomas . Michael C.. Skelley . Paul E.. Frank . J. Howard. CRC Press. Family 106: Tenebrionidae. 463–509. 978-0-8493-0954-0.