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 heros
Castelnau, 1840
: 80
. Available name.
Type specimen:
Unknown to us.
Type locality:
‘
Cayenne
’ (
Castelnau, 1840
).
Nomenclatural history:
To our knowledge, this name was first mentioned as a synonym of
C. lancifer
by
Lacordaire(1856)
, who cited that as males of this species; this opinion was followed by all subsequent revisers and cataloguers (
Nevinson, 1892
;
Gillet, 1911
;
d’Olsoufieff, 1924
;
Pessôa, 1934
;
Blackwelder, 1944
;
Edmonds & Zídek, 2010
). No
syntypes
of this name were found by us and, therefore, a
lectotype
designation is not possible at the moment. See the discussion on
P. sylvanus
for more details.