The genus Gromphas Dejean, 1836 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeinae): nomenclature, distribution, and conservation, including a contribution to the debate on electronic publications in zoology Author Cupello, Mario Laboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19020, 81531 - 980, Curitiba, Paraná (Brazil); and Department of Entomology, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843 (United States) mcupello @ hotmail. com mcupello@hotmail.com text Zoosystema 2024 2024-02-09 46 2 23 59 https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2024v46a2.pdf journal article 10.5252/zoosystema2024v46a2 1638-9387 4B49C1D9-1196-4942-969F-2E923B1FC12C Gromphas Dejean, 1836 Gromphas Dejean, 1836: 159 [ 30th July 1836 ]. TYPE SPECIES . — Coprobius lacordairii Oken, 1834 , by original monotypy. ETYMOLOGY . — From the Latinisation of the Ancient Greek noun ΓΡΟμΦΆς ( gromfás ), meaning ‘an old sow’, feminine in gender ( Brullé 1838 ; Harold 1869a ; Bailly 1895 ; Liddell & Scott 1897 ; Brown 1954 ; Cupello & Vaz-de-Mello 2013 ). The name likely draws a parallel between the stout, hornless body shape of both pigs and the only species originally included in the genus, G. lacordairii , while also making a probable reference to the ‘filthy’ coprophagous habits of these dung beetles.