{{short description|Subgenus of beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Anthrenus fuscus01.jpg | image_caption = ''Anthrenus fuscus'', a common species from the subgenus | taxon = Helocerus | authority = Mulsant & Rey, 1868 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. }} '''''Helocerus''''' is a subgenus of the genus ''Anthrenus'' of the subfamily Megatominae within the family of skin beetles.<ref name=wd-genera/> Subgenus is distinguished by antennae with 5 segments (sometimes 6 in females).<ref name=coleonet-anthrenus/>
== Species == According to World Dermestidae catalogue, these species currently belong to subgenus ''Helocerus'':<ref name=wd-species/><ref name=dermestidae-herrmann/> *''Anthrenus cechovskyi'' <small>(Háva & Kadej, 2015)</small> – Nepal *''Anthrenus fuscus'' <small>(Olivier, 1789)</small> – Europe; North America (Canada, United States); Laos; Russia; Saudi Arabia; Morocco; Japan (Bonin Is.); Introduced to Indonesia (Sumatra); St. Helena Islands *''Anthrenus minutus'' <small>(Erichson, 1846)</small> – Corsica; Portugal; Sardinia; Spain. Introduced to Sudan *''Anthrenus polonicus'' <small>(Mroczkowski, 1951)</small> – Belarus; Bulgaria; Czech Republic; Slovakia; "Yugoslavia"; United Kingdom; Estonia; Germany; Hungary; Latvia; Russia (Astrakhan, Dagestan, Krasnodar, Stavropol, Ural); Ukraine;
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=wd-genera>{{Cite web |last=Háva |first=Jiří |date=2023 |title=World Dermestidae. Genera and subgenera division of Dermestidae |url=http://dermestidae.wz.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Genera-and-subgenera-division-of-Dermestidae.pdf |access-date=2 June 2024 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240519054836/http://dermestidae.wz.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Genera-and-subgenera-division-of-Dermestidae.pdf | archivedate= 19 May 2024}}</ref>
<ref name=wd-species>{{Cite web |last=Háva |first=Jiří |date=2023 |title=World Dermestidae. Subfamily Megatominae |url=http://dermestidae.wz.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Subfamily-Megatominae.pdf#page=6 |access-date=2 June 2024 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240602070250/http://dermestidae.wz.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Subfamily-Megatominae.pdf#page=6| archivedate= 2 June 2024}}</ref>
<ref name=dermestidae-herrmann>{{Cite web |last=Herrmann |first=Andreas |date=2024 |title=Dermestidae (Abbildungen) |url=http://www.dermestidae.com/Abbildungen.html |access-date=2 June 2024 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240602070649/http://www.dermestidae.com/Abbildungen.html| archivedate= 2 June 2024}}</ref>
<ref name=coleonet-anthrenus>{{Cite web |date=2024 |title=Anthrenus Bestimmungstabelle (Anthrenus identification table) |url=https://coleonet.de/coleo/texte/anthrenus.htm |access-date=12 June 2024 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521045158/https://coleonet.de/coleo/texte/anthrenus.htm |archivedate= 21 May 2024 }}</ref>
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