The dung beetles of Venezuela (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): catalogue and updated distribution Author Rosa, Cecilia Lozano De La 36CFEA67-71C5-4F3C-97F8-B57E43C811CC Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Centro de Estudios Botánicos y Agroforestales, Laboratorio de Ecología Espacial, Maracaibo, estado Zulia, Venezuela. lozanoceci@gmail.com Author Cupello, Mario BDB03C18-7095-4EAA-8BDD-03CB4F79676D Laboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. Currently at Department of Entomology, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA. mcupello@hotmail.com Author Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z. 2BC093C2-3E2B-466B-B31C-9F3D9FA844BC Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil. vazdemello@gmail.com text European Journal of Taxonomy 2024 2024-10-11 959 1 1 272 https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2677/12401 journal article 305167 10.5852/ejt.2024.959.2677 bf132c8e-dbc7-4f3d-96e9-1a0b153e765a 2118-9773 13945464 30872C13-516F-42FA-AFA7-30ADC6BF1BAF Hansreia affinis ( Fabricius, 1801 ) Fig. 54A Ateuchus affinis Fabricius, 1801: 64 (original description). Type locality: Guyana . Name-bearing type: lectotype (ZMUK), designated by Valois et al. (2015) , examined by FZVM. Ateuchus affinis – Schönherr 1806: 64 (catalogue). — Harold 1868a: 11 , 25 (monograph). — Vulcano & Pereira 1964: 603 (catalogue). Coprobius affinis – Dejean 1836: 152 (catalogue). — Vulcano & Pereira 1964: 603 (catalogue). Canthon affinis – Castelnau 1840: 69 (description). — Harold 1868a: 11 , 25 (monograph); 1869d: 989 (catalogue). — Gillet 1911b: 27 (catalogue). — Schmidt 1922: 68 , 72 (distribution). — Balthasar 1939a: 194 (key). — Blackwelder 1944: 198 (checklist, cited as Canthon affine ). — Gacharná 1951: 221 (catalogue, cited as Canthon affine ). — Vulcano & Pereira 1964: 603 (catalogue). Hansreia affinis – Halffter & Martínez 1977: 36 , 64–65 (redescription). — Forsyth & Gill 1993: 70 (list for Guyana ). — Bicknell et al. 2014 : supp. 1 (ecology). — Valois et al. 2015: 208 (revision, lectotype designation). — Larsen 2011: 99 (list for Suriname ); 2013: 97 (list for Suriname ). — Feer 2000: 32 (list for French Guiana); 2008: 62 (ecology, list). — Feer & Pincebourde 2005: 30 (list, ecology). — Brûlé et al. 2011a: 193 (list). — Price & Feer 2012: 327 (list for French Guiana). — Boilly & Vaz-de-Mello 2013: 105 (fig. 31, cited for Guyane). — Hielkema & Hielkema 2019: 80 (catalogue for the Guianas). Distribution Venezuela , Guyana , Suriname , French Guiana, and Brazil . Subregion of Venezuela System of hills and low piedmont mountains of the Guiana Shield. Literature records Halffter & Martínez 1977: 64 ( Venezuela ). — Valois et al. 2015: 208 ( Venezuela : Bolívar ).