Type specimens and names assigned to Coprophanaeus (Megaphanaeus) d’Olsoufieff, 1924, the largest New World dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Phanaeini)
Author
Maldaner, Maria E.
Author
Cupello, Mario
Author
Ferreira, Daniela C.
Author
Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z.
text
Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
32970
10.11646/zootaxa.4272.1.4
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Phanaeus miles
Castelnau, 1840
: 80
. Available name.
Type specimen:
Unknown to us.
Type locality:
‘
Cayenne
’ (
Castelnau, 1840
).
Nomenclatural history:
In the same way as for
P. heros
, to our knowledge, the first author to include
P. miles
among the synonyms of
C. lancifer
was
Lacordaire (1856)
, who considered Castelnau’s description as referring to males specimens of
C. lancifer
. This synonymy was followed by all subsequent revisers and cataloguers (
Nevinson 1892
;
Gillet 1911
;
d’Olsoufieff 1924
;
Pessôa 1934
;
Blackwelder 1944
;
Edmonds & Zídek 2010
). No
syntypes
were found and, therefore, a
lectotype
designation is not possible at the moment. See the discussion on
P. sylvanus
for more details.