Afrohelotina

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Cucujoidea

Familia: Helotidae
Genus: Afrohelotina
Species (9): A. africana – A. congoana – A. costata – A. ferranti – A. guineensis – A. lujae – A. pauli – A. semiopurpuraea – A. sjostedti
Name

Afrohelotina Kirejtshuk, 2000
Type species: Helota costata Ritsema, 1889

Primary references

Kirejtshuk, A.G. 2000: On origin and early evolution of the superfamily Cucujoidea (Coleoptera, Polyphaga). Comments on the family Helotidae. Izvestiya Kharkovskogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva, 8(1): 8–38. [in English, with Russian abstract] Abstract