Hiekeolycus Winkler, 1987

Bocak, Ladislav, Motyka, Michal, Kusy, Dominik, Arias-Bohart, Elizabeth T., Bybee, Seth M., Kazantsev, Sergey V. & Yamamoto, Shuhei, 2025, Validation of earlier proposed taxa Tibionemini new tribe and Hiekeolycus winkleri new species, Zootaxa 5609 (2), pp. 293-297 : 295

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5609.2.10
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15214998
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scientific name	Hiekeolycus Winkler, 1987
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Hiekeolycus Winkler, 1987 , nom. resurr.

Hiekeolycus Winkler, 1987: 66 .

Type species: Hiekeolycus berendti Winkler, 1987 (original designation).

Diagnosis. Hiekeolycus resembles related Helcophorus Fairmaire in general appearance. The genera differ in the structure of the elytral humeri. The humeral bulge is built only by costa 3 in Hiekeolycus ( Fig. 2A,C View FIGURE 2 ) and by costae 3 and 4 in Helcophorus .

Justification of the name resurrection. Hiekeolycus Winkler, 1987 has been considered a synonym of Helcophorus Fairmaire, 1881 ( Kazantsev 2004, 2013) as these genera are similar, and the elytral humeri of H. berendti and H. ekaterinae were poorly seen ( Kazantsev & Perkovsky 2022; Winkler 1987). We compared all Eocene species with extant Helcophorus and noted differently arranged costae. Therefore, we resurrect Hiekeolycus as a separate genus.