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
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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.