Dung beetles from two sustainable-use protected forests in the Brazilian Amazon Author Carvalho, Edrielly C. Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Laboratorio de Scarabaeoidologia. Instituto de Biociencias - UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil & Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Entomologia. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia - INPA, Manaus, Brazil edrielly.carol@gmail.com Author Maldaner, Maria Eduarda Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Ecologia e Conservacao da Biodiversidade (PPGECB), Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso - UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil Author Costa-Silva, Vinicius Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Laboratorio de Scarabaeoidologia. Instituto de Biociencias - UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil & Laboratory of Integrative Entomology, Department of Animal Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil Author Sehn, Heivanice Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Zoologia. Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso - UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil Author Franquini, Carol Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Laboratorio de Scarabaeoidologia. Instituto de Biociencias - UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil Author Campos, Vinicius O. Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Laboratorio de Scarabaeoidologia. Instituto de Biociencias - UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil Author Seba, Vinicius P. Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Laboratorio de Scarabaeoidologia. Instituto de Biociencias - UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil Author Maia, Lais F. School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Queens Road, BS 8 1 QU, UK, Bristol, United Kingdom Author Vaz-de-Mello, Fernando Z. Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Laboratorio de Scarabaeoidologia. Instituto de Biociencias - UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil Author Franca, Filipe Machado School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Queens Road, BS 8 1 QU, UK, Bristol, United Kingdom & Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Ecologia (PPGECO), Universidade Federal do Para, Belem, PA, 66075 - 110, Brazil, Belem, Brazil text Biodiversity Data Journal 2023 2023-03-16 11 96101 96101 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e96101 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e96101 1314-2828-11-e96101 D5EDAFB69B7D528488B724DA0DBC8915 Ateuchus Weber, 1801 Notes With around 100 species described, this genus needs urgent revision. The last revision of Brazilian Ateuchus species was done by Harold (1868) , while Balthasar (1939) represents the last identification key for the genus. Most species occur in North America, Costa Rica and Mexico ( Kohlmann 1984 , Kohlmann 1997 , Genier 2000 , Kohlmann and Vaz-de-Mello 2018 ) and appear to be copro-necrophagous, including species from open areas and species that live associated with ant nests ( Vaz-de-Mello et al. 1998 ). Nine species were identified in our study: Ateuchus globulus (Balthasar, 1938), A. cf. pygidialis , A. cf. murrayi , A. semicupreus (Harold, 1868), A. substriatus (Harold, 1868) and Ateuchus sp. 1, Ateuchus sp. 2, Ateuchus sp. 3 and Ateuchus sp. 4 (Fig. 2 A-G).