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 4272 1 83 102 journal article 32970 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.1.4 cb7585af-33bc-4b5e-a748-cbba9d080a34 1175-5326 583381 EC7977C6-AA05-4727-8122-F53F8D66F6DD 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.