Helops caeruleus stevenii Krynicki, 1834

Nabozhenko, M. V. & Keskin, B., 2017, Taxonomic review of the genus Helops Fabricius, 1775 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Turkey, Caucasian Entomological Bulletin (Caucas. entomol. bull.) 13 (1), pp. 41-49 : 43

Helops caeruleus stevenii Krynicki, 1834 (Color plate 1: 1, 2; Color plate 2: 10, 14; Figs 19–23 )

Reitter, 1922: 31; Abdurakhmanov, Nabozhenko, 2011: 305.

Material. Georgia, Batumi , 1♂, 1♀ ( ZIN) .

Notes. The nominotypical subspecies was listed for Anatolia by Nabozhenko and Löbl [2008]. Reitter [1922] recorded H. caeruleus stevenii for “Kleinasien”. Later Abdurakhmanov and Nabozhenko [2011] corrected that H. caeruleus stevenii is distributed in North Eastern Anatolia. We have not any material from Turkey, but the subspecies is known from Batum in Georgia [ Radde, 1899; ZIN collection], near the border of Turkey and can be found in Rize Province.

Figures

Figs 19–23. Helops caeruleus sevenii, male genitalia and terminalia. 19 – aedeagus, ventral view; 20 – median piece (penis); 21 – aedeagus, lateral view; 22 – lobe of gastral spicula, lateral view; 23 – male inner sternite VIII, ventrally. Рис. 19–23. Helops caeruleus sevenii, генитаΛии и терминаΛии самца. 19 – эΑеагус вентраΛьно; 20 – пенис; 21 – эΑеагус ΛатераΛьно; 22 – Λопасть гастраΛьной спикуΛы, ΛатераΛьно; 23 – VIII внутренний стернит самца, вентраΛьно.