Taxonomic review of the genus Helops Fabricius, 1775 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Turkey
Journal: Caucasian Entomological Bulletin
Year: 2017

Helops s. str. Fabricius, 1775 is a small genus (the type genus of the tribe Helopini) with 6 species and 4 subspecies distributed in the Mediterranean region, Central Europe, Crimea, the Caucasus and Northern Iran [Nabozhenko, Lbl, 2008]. Helops caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) was conservated as the type species of the genus [Nabozhenko et al., 2008]. The greatest diversity of Helops is observed in