Heliocopris - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Heliocopris is a genus of Scarabaeidae

Scarabaeidae

The family Scarabaeidae as currently defined consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide. The species in this large family are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family is fairly unstable, with numerous competing theories, and new proposals appearing quite...

or scarab beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea

Scarabaeoidea

Scarabaeoidea is a superfamily of beetles, the only subgroup of the infraorder Scarabaeiformia. Around 35,000 species are placed in this superfamily and some 200 new species are described each year...

. They are found in Africa, and southern and southeast Asia.

The genus Heliocopris includes the following species:

Heliocopris alatus (Felsche, 1910)
Heliocopris anadematus (Gillet, 1908)
Heliocopris andersoni (Bates, 1868)
Heliocopris anguliceps (Janssens, 1943)
Heliocopris antenor (Olivier, 1789)
Heliocopris atropos (Boheman, 1860)
Heliocopris beccarii (Harold, 1871)
Heliocopris biimpressus (Kolbe, 1893)
Heliocopris bucephalus (Fabricius, 1775)
Heliocopris colossus (Bates, 1868)
Heliocopris corniculatus (Janssens, 1939)
Heliocopris coronatus (Felsche, 1901)
Heliocopris cuneifer (Lesne, 1906)
Heliocopris densissa (Roth, 1851)
Heliocopris dianae (Hope, 1842)
Heliocopris dilloni (Guérin-Méneville, 1847)
Heliocopris dolosus (Janssens, 1939)
Heliocopris dominus (Bates, 1868)
Heliocopris erycoides (Felsche, 1907)
Heliocopris eryx (Fabricius, 1801)
Heliocopris faunus (Boheman, 1857)
Heliocopris felschei (Kolbe, 1904)
Heliocopris fonsecai (Ferreira, 1967)
Heliocopris furcithorax (Müller, 1941)
Heliocopris gigas (Linnaeus, 1758)
Heliocopris hamadryas (Fabricius, 1775)
Heliocopris hamifer (Harold, 1878)
Heliocopris haroldi (Kolbe, 1893)
Heliocopris helleri (Felsche, 1907)
Heliocopris hermes (Gillet, 1911)
Heliocopris hunteri (Waterhouse, 1891)
Heliocopris japetus (Klug, 1855)
Heliocopris kolbei (Felsche, 1901)
Heliocopris marshalli (Péringuey, 1901)
Heliocopris midas (Fabricius, 1775)
Heliocopris mimus (Janssens, 1939)
Heliocopris minos (Gillet, 1907)
Heliocopris mutabilis (Kolbe, 1893)
Heliocopris myrmidon (Kolbe, 1893)
Heliocopris neptuniformis (Felsche, 1907)
Heliocopris neptunoides (Janssens, 1939)
Heliocopris neptunus (Boheman, 1857)
Heliocopris pauliani (Janssens, 1939)
Heliocopris pirmal (Fabricius, 1798)
Heliocopris quinqueangulatus (Janssens, 1939)
Heliocopris samson (Harold, 1878)
Heliocopris solitarius (Kolbe, 1893)
Heliocopris staudingeri (Kolbe, 1893)
Heliocopris sylvanus (Gillet, 1925)
Heliocopris tyrannus (Thomson, 1859)

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