New records of dynastine scarab beetles in the tribes Oryctini, Agaocephalini and Dynastini from Cayo district, Belize (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)
Author
Gillett, Conrad P. D. T.
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Insecta Mundi
2009
2009-10-25
2009
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5167847
1942-1354
5167847
Coelosis biloba
(Linnaeus, 1767)
Specimens examined.
3 (
2 males
and
1 female
).
BMNH and MGCB.
Localities.
Las Cuevas (3)
Temporal data.
June (3)
Distribution.
Central
Mexico
to southern Argen-
tina.
Bates (1888)
recorded the species from
Cayo
,
and
Blackwelder (1944)
recorded it from
British
Honduras. As discussed above,
Endrödi (1976)
re-
corded it from
Stann Creek district
.
Remarks.
This species is known to be myrmeco-
philous, having been associated with leaf-cutter
attine ants (
Lachaume 1992
; Ratcliffe 2006), which
are abundant at Las Cuevas. Two specimens were
collected dead in 2006. Although no biological data
is available for these specimens, it is notable that
in more than two weeks of light trapping at Las
Cuevas in 2006, not a single specimen of this spe-
cies was captured, possibly indicating that the main
period of adult activity for this species had passed
by the time the two dead specimens above were
collected. This species can be amongst the com-
monest
Oryctini
attracted to artificial light in cer-
tain areas (Yannig Ponchel pers. comm.).
Endrödi (1976)
mentioned a locality for this
species in
Honduras
, which actually represents a
record from
Belize
. The locality in question is
Figure 3.
Map indicating the three sites (numbered) Middlesex, Stann Creck (sic) district.
Stann Creek
where collecting was undertaken in
Cayo district
during is a district in eastern
Belize
(the country formerly
May and June 2006
. 1) Las Cuevas Research Station. 2) known as
British Honduras
), which undoubtedly Pook’s Hill Lodge. 3) San Ignacio town.
explains the confusion. Other records from ‘Hon-
duras’ reported in Endrödi’s monographs could also possibly actually relate to
British Honduras
(
Belize
) and care should be taken when interpreting them (e.g., Ratcliffe 2003: 225).