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) & Department of Entomology, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843 (United States) 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 jardim Cupello & Vaz-de-Mello, 2015 Gromphas jardim Cupello & Vaz-de-Mello, 2015: 4 [ 12th October 2015 ; see discussion below]. NAME-BEARING TYPE . — Holotype by original designation ( male ), OUMNH . TYPE LOCALITY . — Bolivia : Beni : Moxos , Río Ichiguita , 155 m , 15°08’S , 65°18’W , savanna habitat . ETYMOLOGY . — The masculine singular nominative of the proper noun Jardim, a Portuguese surname meaning ‘garden’, used in apposition. It is an eponym after my beloved maternal grandfather and Brazilian airline pilot Arlindo da Silva Jardim (1923-2014), who died in the same week I realised this species was new while examining specimens at the Oxford and London museums. DISTRIBUTION . — Open savannas, pastures and perhaps river sandbanks in the Beni Savanna of Bolivia (in the Mamoré River Basin) and the western Brazilian Cerrado (on the northern fringes of the Pantanal wetlands).