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Helochares

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae

Taxonomy
Helochares was named by Mulsant (1846). It is extant.

It was assigned to Hydrophilidae by Zhang (1989); and to Acidocerinae by Short and Fikáček (2013) and Arriaga-Varela et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1846Helochares Mulsant
1989Helochares Zhang p. 106
2013Helochares Short and Fikáček
2021Helochares Arriaga-Varela et al. p. 1403

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyHydrophiloidea
familyHydrophilidae
subfamilyAcidocerinae(Zaitzev 1908)
genusHelocharesMulsant 1846

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Helochares Mulsant 1846
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†Helochares fog Arriaga-Varela et al. 2021
†Helochares mydaleus Zhang 1989
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available