Pseudhelops

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Tenebrionidae
Subfamilia: Tenebrioninae
Tribus: Titaenini
Genus: Pseudhelops
Species (9): P. antipodensis – P. capitalis – P. chathamensis – P. clandestinus – P. liberalis – P. posticalis – P. quadricollis – P. tuberculatus – P. wenhami

[source: Leschen et al. (2011)]
Name

Pseudhelops Guérin-Méneville, 1841
Gender: masculine
Type species: Pseudhelops tuberculatus Guérin-Méneville, 1841
Fixation: monotypy

References

Broun, T. 1909: Descriptions of Coleoptera from the subantarctic islands of New Zealand; with remarks on the affinities of the genera, etc. pp. 78–123 in: Chilton, C. (ed.) The subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Volume 1. Philosophical Institute of Canterbury: [Christchurch, N.Z.] Internet Archive BHL
Guérin-Méneville, F.-E. 1841: Description de quelques coléoptères nouveaux provenant de la Tasmanie, du port Otago (Nouvelle Zélande), d'Esington-Bay (Australie septentrionale), de Triton-Bay (Nouvelle-Guinée), et des îles Vavao, Salomon, Ternate, Borneo, Aukland, etc. Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne, 1841: 120–128. Internet Archive BHL
Kaszab, Z. 1964: Insects of Campbell Island. Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae. Pacific insects monograph, 7 : 397–400. BUGZ
Leschen, R.A.B.; Butler, E.; Buckley, T.R.; Ritchie, P. 2011: Biogeography of the New Zealand subantarctic islands: phylogenetics of Pseudhelops (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). New Zealand entomologist, 34: 12–26.
Leschen, R.A.B.; Lawrence, J.F.; Kuschel, G.; Thorpe, S.; Wang, Q. 2003: Coleoptera genera of New Zealand. New Zealand entomologist, 26: 15–28. ISSN: 0077-9962
Watt, J.C. 1971: Entomology of the Aucklands and other islands south of New Zealand: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Byrrhidae, Ptinidae, Tenebrionidae. Pacific insects monograph, 27: 193–224. PDF BUGZ
Watt, J.C. 1992: Tenebrionidae (Insecta: Coleoptera): catalogue of types and keys to taxa. Fauna of New Zealand, (26 )