Heilus Kuschel 1955

Genus Heilus Kuschel, 1955 Heilus Kuschel, 1955:292 (key); O’Brien & Wibmer 1982:79 (catalog); Wibmer & O’Brien 1986:144 (catalog); Maes & O’Brien 1990:24 (checklist); Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal 1999:201 (catalog); Morrone 1999:55 (checklist); Rheinheimer 2010:68 (checklist); O’Brien & Turnbow 2011:28 (checklist); Lira et al. 2020 (revision). Type species: Heilipus inaequalis Boheman, 1836, by original designation. Diagnosis. The genus Heilus can be recognized by the basal fold of the first abdominal ventrite expanded posteriorly into the ventrite, surrounding the posterior coxae; funicle with second antennomere longer than others; pronotum and elytra covered with scales, granules or tubercles of different size and forms, and arrangements; metasternum punctate, variably covered with scales, with smooth longitudinal median line; endophallus with endophallites in various arrangements. The species of Heilus have a predominantly Neotropical distribution, with only H. bioculatus recorded from the Nearctic region and Central America, H. caecus (Champion, 1902), H. costaricensis (Champion, 1902), and H. sinuatus (Boheman, 1843) in Central America, and H. admixtus (Hustache, 1938), H. asperulus (Erichson, 1847), H. bistigma (Hustache, 1938), H. christinae Lira, De Sousa & Marques sp. nov., H. faldermanni (Boheman, 1836), H. fasciculatus (Boheman, 1843), H. freyreissi (Boheman, 1836), H. inaequalis (Boheman, 1836), H. iniquus (Kirsch, 1874), H. inornatus (Kirsch, 1874), H. myops (Boheman, 1836), H. obrieni Lira, De Sousa & Marques sp. nov., H. ochrifer (Boheman, 1843), H. pupillatus (Oliver, 1790), H. rosadonetoi Lira, De Sousa & Marques sp. nov., H. rufescens (Boheman, 1836), H. tuberculosus (Perty, 1832), H. vanini Lira, De Sousa & Marques sp. nov., all in South America.Published as part of Lira, Aline De Oliveira, Sousa, Wesley Oliveira De & Marques, Marinêz Isaac, 2023, Four new species of Heilus Kuschel 1955 (Curculionidae, Molytinae, Molytini, Hylobiina) from Brazil, pp. 206-216 in Zootaxa 5336 (2) on page 207, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5336.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/827246