The dung beetles of Venezuela (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): catalogue and updated distribution
Author
Rosa, Cecilia Lozano De La
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Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Centro de Estudios Botánicos y Agroforestales, Laboratorio de Ecología Espacial, Maracaibo, estado Zulia, Venezuela.
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Author
Cupello, Mario
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Laboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. Currently at Department of Entomology, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
mcupello@hotmail.com
Author
Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z.
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Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
vazdemello@gmail.com
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European Journal of Taxonomy
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2024-10-11
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Ontherus sulcator
(
Fabricius, 1775
)
Fig. 58B
Scarabaeus sulcator
Fabricius, 1775: 27
(original description). Type locality:
French Guiana
. Name-bearing type: according to
Zimsen (1964)
,
three syntypes
in ZMUK, but deemed lost without further explanation by
Génier (1996)
. We ourselves have made no attempt to locate them, and so they may well be in ZMUK as Zimsen said.
Copris nisus
Castelnau, 1840: 79
(original description). Type locality:
French Guiana
. Name-bearing type:
lectotype
(MVMA), designated by
Génier (1996)
, not examined.
Copris ovalipennis
Blanchard, 1846: 180
(original description). Type locality:
Argentina
:
Corrientes
. Name-bearing type:
lectotype
(MNHN), designated by
Génier (1996)
, not examined.
Copris senegalensis
Gillet, 1910: 15
(original description). Type locality: Unknown. Originally said to be
Senegal
(“
Sénégal
”), but this is incorrect (
Gillet 1911a
). Name-bearing type:
syntypes
(RBINS) (
Gillet 1910
), not examined.
Scarabaeus sulcator
–
Olivier 1789: 142
(redescription). —
Fabricius 1792: 61
(redescription).
Copris sulcator
–
Fabricius 1801: 53
(redescription). —
Olivier, 1790: 168
(redescription). —
Martínez 1959: 71
(cited).
Copris nisus
–
Blanchard, 1846: 180
(comments). —
Burmeister 1874: 126
(list for
Argentina
). —
Martínez 1959: 71
(cited as synonym of
Ontherus sulcator
).
Ontherus sulcator
–
Erichson 1847b: 761
(comments). —
Harold 1869c: 59
(comments);
1869d: 1008
(catalogue). —
Burmeister 1874: 126
(list for
Argentina
). —
Gillet 1911a: 319
(list);
1911b: 58
(catalogue). —
Bruch 1915: 541
(list). —
Lucas 1920: 459
(catalogue). —
Luederwaldt 1930: 106
(comments);
1931a: 371
, 385, 389, 392, 408, 411, 416 (key, synonymy). —
Pessôa & Lane 1941: 456
, 458 (key). —
Blackwelder 1944: 206
(checklist). —
Martínez 1959: 71
(catalogue). —
Vulcano & Pereira, 1967: 583
(key). —
Forsyth & Gill 1993: 70
(as
O. suclator
[sic], cited for
Guyana
). —
Escobar 2000: 209
(list). —
Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 194
(checklist for
Brazil
). —
Medina
et al.
2001: 139
(checklist for
Colombia
). —
Hamel-Leigue
et al.
2006: 16
(inventory, cited for
Bolivia
). —
Feer 2008: 62
(ecology, list). —
Larsen
et al.
2008: 1294
(list). —
Krajcik 2012: 174
(checklist, cited for Cayenne). —
Boilly & Vaz-de-Mello 2013: 112
(
Fig. 43
, key). —
Ferrer-Paris
et al.
2013: 109
(list). —
Ratcliffe
et al.
2015: 197
(checklist, cited for
Peru
).
Fig. 58.
Species distribution.
A
.
Ontherus pubens
Génier, 1996
.
B
.
Ontherus sulcator
(
Fabricius, 1775
)
. Black circle = literature data.
Copris ovalipennis
–
Harold 1869a: 503
(comments); 1869c: 59 (comments). —
Burmeister 1874: 126
(list for
Argentina
). —
Luederwaldt 1931a: 386
(cited as synonym of
Ontherus nisus
). —
Martínez 1959: 71
(cited as synonym of
Ontherus sulcator
).
Ontherus nisus
–
Harold 1869d: 1008
(catalogue, cited as synonym of
O. sulcator
). —
Gillet 1911b: 58
(catalog, cited as synonym of
O. sulcator
). —
Luederwaldt 1931a: 387
, 392, 399, 400, 409, 411, 417 (redescription, distribution, key). —
Pessôa & Lane 1941: 457
, 458 (key, redescription). —
Blackwelder 1944: 206
(cited as synonym of
O. sulcator
). —
Lange 1947: 310
(list). —
Martínez 1959: 71
(cited as synonym of
O. sulcator
).
Pinotus ovalipennis
–
Harold 1869d: 1008
(catalogue, cited for
Argentina
:
Corrientes
).
Ontherus ovalipennis
–
Gillet 1911b: 58
(catalog, cited as synonym of
O. sulcator
). —
Luederwaldt 1931a: 387
(cited as synonym of
O. nisus
). —
Pessôa & Lane 1941: 458
(cited as synonym of
O. nisus
). —
Blackwelder 1944: 206
(cited as synonym of
O. sulcator
). —
Martínez 1959: 71
(cited as synonym of
O. sulcator
).
Copris senegalensis
–
Gillet 1911a: 319
(cited as synonym of
O. sulcator
); 1911b: 58 (catalog, cited as synonym of
O. sulcator
). —
Bruch 1915: 541
(list, cited as synonym of
O. sulcator
). —
Martínez 1959: 72
(cited as synonym of
O. sulcator
).
Ontherus sulcator
–
Luederwaldt 1931a: 364
(
type
species).
Ontherus senegalensis
–
Luederwaldt 1931a: 386
, 387 (cited as synonym of
Ontherus nisus
). —
Pessôa & Lane 1941: 458
(cited as synonym of
O. nisus
). —
Blackwelder 1944: 206
(cited as synonym of
O. sulcator
).
Ontherus
(
Ontherus
)
sulcator
–
Génier 1996: 74‒76
(revision). —
Hielkema & Hielkema 2019: 57
(catalogue for the Guianas).
Distribution
Colombia
,
Venezuela
,
Trinidad and Tobago
,
Guyana
,
Suriname
, French Guiana,
Brazil
,
Ecuador
,
Peru
,
Bolivia
,
Paraguay
,
Argentina
, and
Uruguay
(
Génier 1996
).
Subregions of
Venezuela
System of hills and low piedmont mountains of the Guiana Shield, System of low mountains and hills Imataca-Cuyuní of Northeast
Guyana
Shield, and Guiana Shield.
Literature records
Luederwaldt 1931a: 387
, 409, 417 (
Venezuela
). —
Pessôa & Lane 1941: 457–458
(
Venezuela
). —
Vulcano & Pereira 1967: 583
(
Venezuela
). —
Génier 1996: 74
(
Venezuela
:
Bolívar
). —
Larsen
et al.
2008: 1294
(
Venezuela
:
Bolívar
). —
Ferrer-Paris
et al.
2013: 109
(
Venezuela
:
Bolívar
:
Isla
de Anacoco).