Helops glabriventris Reitter, 1885

Nabozhenko, Maxim, Keskin, Bekir & Papadopoulou, Anna, 2020, Two new species and new records of darkling beetles of the tribe Helopini from Turkey and Cyprus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (2), pp. 411-417 : 414

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.37520/aemnp.2020.25
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:94935C98-664E-4D3C-87FA-F3FC6513512B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4550749
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0E36BF5D-FFF8-FF98-945C-D4E10B75FCE3
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Helops glabriventris Reitter, 1885
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Material examined. 1 ♀ ( LPCB):‘ Cyprus, 5 km NE Limassol / Germasogeia Dam env., 26.III–2.IV.2006 / lgt. P. Jelinek’.

Comments. This species is known from Greece, southwestern Turkey and Cyprus; feeds on lichens on Juniperus excelsa , Cedrus libani , Abies cilicica in Turkey (NΑΒοΖ*üΕΝΚο & KΕඌΚΙΝ 2017) and on Cedrus brevifolia in Cyprus (G*©ΙΜΜ 1991). Environs of the Germasogeia Dam is a highly destructed anthropogenic landscape with forest patches of Pinus brutia nearby. The species was probably collected in pine habitats. The subspecies H. glabriventris jelineki Picka, 1984 was described from Crete (PΙ*öΚΑ 1984).