Description of the Female of Tomarus rostratus Dupuis and New Synonyms and Records for the Genus Tomarus Erichson (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)
Author
López-García, Margarita M.
Author
Deloya, Cuauhtémoc
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2018
2018-06-20
72
2
331
338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-72.2.331
journal article
10.1649/0010-065X-72.2.331
1938-4394
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Tomarus rubripes
(Boheman, 1858)
Distribution.
Brazil
,
Uruguay
(
Endrödi 1969
;
Neita-Moreno and Ratcliffe 2017
), and
Argentina
NEW COUNTRY RECORD.
Specimens Examined.
ARGENTINA
:
Pcia.
Buenos Aires
, Dto. Puan,
Felipe Solá
,
ii.1961
,
A. Martinez
[
1♀
,
MZUSP
]
.
BRAZIL
:
S~ ao
Paulo
,
Itanhaem
, vi.24,
R. Spite Leg.
[16,
MZUSP
].
Sao
~
Paulo
,
Peru´ıbe
,
vii.1954
[16,
MZUSP
]. S~ ao Paulo, Guarujá,
iii.1923
[26,
1♀
MN/
UFRJ
]
NEW STATE RECORDS
.
Comments.
Tomarus rubripes
was described from
Uruguay
, but
Neita-Moreno and Ratcliffe (2017)
had no definitive evidence of the presence of the species in
Uruguay
or
Argentina
.
They
only confirmed the presence of
T. rubripes
in
Cassino Beach
,
Rio Grande do Sul
,
Brazil
(where its junior synonym was described).
However
, the new record in
Argentina
supports the validity of the
type
locality of this
South American
species that apparently is rare since very few specimens were seen in Brazilian collections. The records presented here extend the distribution of the species
1,150 km
north and
700 km
south, and it is the first record in the state of S~ ao Paulo
.