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<paragraph id="CD636C3541C7EB845FE0769C24FA11EC" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Type species.</paragraph>
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Casey, 1915, by original designation.
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<paragraph id="209547D1AA54C7B583EEC977FAC8E2C8" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Valid taxa.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="37056B7FA3B0E985731BC3496A5BDD98" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">15 species.</paragraph>
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The nomenclatural history of
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was complicated by a case of homonymy.
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was originally proposed as a subgenus of
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(
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).
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Casey, 1915 is a homonym of
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Baly, 1885 (
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:
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) (
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,
<bibRefCitation id="9854C22CEBE1325F8E71BBF966E96888" author="Arrow, G J" journalOrPublisher="Transactions of the Entomological Society of London" pageId="63" pageNumber="64" url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1937.tb00246.x" year="1937 a">Arrow 1937a</bibRefCitation>
). To rectify this problem,
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was elevated to the status of genus and comprised the seven species originally included in
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(
<bibRefCitation id="CB34B08096A2580DC2B72E0ABFCE701A" author="Casey, TL" journalOrPublisher="Memoirs on the Coleoptera" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" pagination="1 - 347" title="A review of the American species of Rutelinae, Dynastinae and Cetoniinae." volume="11" year="1915">Casey 1915</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="6433DB1629F85EB2228C70086A07D0C9" author="Prell, H" journalOrPublisher="Entomologische Blaetter fuer Biologie und Systematik der Kaefer" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" pagination="147 - 150" title="Beitraege zur Kenntnis der Dynastinen. Ueber die Homonymieverhaeltnisse der Namen von Gattungen und Untergattungen." volume="32" year="1936">Prell 1936</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="1EB2165E3ED21DDFA2532364C51025C6" author="Arrow, G J" journalOrPublisher="Transactions of the Entomological Society of London" pageId="63" pageNumber="64" url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1937.tb00246.x" year="1937 a">Arrow 1937a</bibRefCitation>
).
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was proposed based on abdominal characters.
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included
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-like species with a rigid fusion of the propygidium and the pygidium (
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). The subgenus
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was proposed for species with a dramatic reduction of the pygidium in addition to propygidial/pygidial fusion (
<bibRefCitation id="CC87258315763958EF5DEBBB6F09C940" author="Casey, TL" journalOrPublisher="Memoirs on the Coleoptera" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" pagination="1 - 347" title="A review of the American species of Rutelinae, Dynastinae and Cetoniinae." volume="11" year="1915">Casey 1915</bibRefCitation>
).
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has been recognized as a valid genus by subsequent authors and was recently revised (
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,
<bibRefCitation id="1EE42BAE73A5D787B7C56F67B3A64EA1" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">b</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="6788C0820A64A474EB94B868CA23E70A" author="Endrodi, S" journalOrPublisher="Entomologische Abhandlungen des Staatlichen Museums fuer Tierkunde Dresden" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" pagination="1 - 460" title="Monographie der Dynastinae (Coleoptera, Lamellicornia). I. Teil." volume="33" year="1966">
<normalizedToken id="73BAB50EB62BE95DA4209165D71011A1" originalValue="Endrődi">Endrodi</normalizedToken>
1966
</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="8B018F48623D57EEE4C790475696AECE" author="Endrodi, S" journalOrPublisher="Junk Publisher, Dordrecht" pageId="71" pageNumber="72" title="The Dynastinae of the World. Dr. W." year="1985 a">1985a</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="4E8E445C445CCE253F008E9AFB1DDDC0" author="Joly, LJ" journalOrPublisher="Entomotropica" pageId="75" pageNumber="76" pagination="37 - 90" title="Revision del genero Chalepides Casey, 1915 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Cyclocephalini)." volume="17" year="2002">Joly and Escalona 2002</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="F8C8D8D2CF5EA7256D959BC2F25AC046" lastPageId="47" lastPageNumber="48" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">
The 15 species of
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are distributed across South America and the West Indies (
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<normalizedToken id="2A9627A3EEC1D453B3B4A8B9773483F8" originalValue="Martínez">Martinez</normalizedToken>
1978b
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,
<bibRefCitation id="34E6F60A83A3AA770B4F5986BF1AFD0D" author="Endrodi, S" journalOrPublisher="Entomologische Abhandlungen des Staatlichen Museums fuer Tierkunde Dresden" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" pagination="1 - 460" title="Monographie der Dynastinae (Coleoptera, Lamellicornia). I. Teil." volume="33" year="1966">
<normalizedToken id="22BA78598E28FCA5B274C28156760298" originalValue="Endrődi">Endrodi</normalizedToken>
1966
</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="F79ED06A0818625C1F6D1010CECD3920" author="Endrodi, S" journalOrPublisher="Opuscula Zoologica (Budapest)" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" pagination="57 - 61" title="Einige Dynastinen-Arten (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae) aus Bolivien." volume="12" year="1973 a">1973a</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="4ECEF0F33714B36AB6A1FDA639A2702B" author="Endrodi, S" journalOrPublisher="Junk Publisher, Dordrecht" pageId="71" pageNumber="72" title="The Dynastinae of the World. Dr. W." year="1985 a">1985a</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="B7ADE1A6F09E21DE995DF6B5BAAE7A25" author="Joly, LJ" journalOrPublisher="Entomotropica" pageId="75" pageNumber="76" pagination="37 - 90" title="Revision del genero Chalepides Casey, 1915 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Cyclocephalini)." volume="17" year="2002">Joly and Escalona 2002</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="454493AA7DADFA8262CE6BF2789A7A5B" author="Riehs, PJ" journalOrPublisher="Ambiencia-Revista do Centro de Ciencias Agrarias e Ambientais" pageId="85" pageNumber="86" pagination="59 - 69" title="Similaridade entre comunidades de Dynastinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) do leste e centro-oeste do Parana: umaabordagem paleoclimatica." volume="1" year="2005">Riehs 2005</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="78BB432CC27A2AF70C427497CA2AA23D" author="Ratcliffe, BC" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum" pageId="84" pageNumber="85" pagination="1 - 346" title="The dynastine scarab beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)." volume="28" year="2015">Ratcliffe and Cave 2015</bibRefCitation>
) (Fig. 56). Species of
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described by
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<pageBreakToken id="F58B47AECD7C8EA7CED9980B502D0697" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" start="start">Prokofiev</pageBreakToken>
(2012)
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require a special discussion.
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Prokofiev and
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Prokofiev were described based on specimens from Peru and Bolivia (
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), and the Peruvian data would represent a new country record for
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. However, both species were placed into the wrong genus, based on the original descriptions and images of the holotypes. The holotype of
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appears to be a female specimen of
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(
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).
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was later synonymized under
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and was also considered an infrasubspecific (
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) entity (
<bibRefCitation id="B57821F22FF0CE19C8A457CB36A4C717" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Prokofiev 2013</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="CD4DBC1E7CAEB25A3B82C2C6F0E29DD5" author="Prokofiev, AM" journalOrPublisher="Calodema" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" pagination="1 - 25" title="New and noteworthy scarab beetles from Asia and America (Coleoptera Lamerllicornia)." volume="330" year="2014">2014</bibRefCitation>
). The discussion below covering the biology and genus-level recognition of
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will exclude information on the misclassified species
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and
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.
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<paragraph id="86527CDA5E074F5DA1D6BE4C04B5D84F" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
Figure 56. Country-level distribution of
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taxa in South America and the West Indies. Numbers indicate taxa per country or region.
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<paragraph id="7BFE1187DC607F183E8CC28A55E7D238" lastPageId="48" lastPageNumber="49" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
Relatively little is known about the biology and natural history of
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species. It is unclear, based on available data, if
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species are floral visitors.
<bibRefCitation id="7FB0C37DD1B2E29E276BDF783839134E" author="Mannerheim, CG" journalOrPublisher="Nouveaux Memoires de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" pagination="29 - 80" title="Description de quarante nouvelles especes de scarabeides du Bresil." volume="1" year="1829">Mannerheim (1829)</bibRefCitation>
reported that
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(Mannerheim) was collected in flowers without further detail.
<bibRefCitation id="3977721D37933A117ED7D738D7864C15" author="Valla, JJ" journalOrPublisher="Darwiniana" pageId="88" pageNumber="89" pagination="477 - 500" title="Biologia floral del irupe, Victoriacruziana D'Orb. (Nymphaeaceae)." volume="17" year="1972">Valla and Cirino (1972)</bibRefCitation>
reported a single specimen of an unidentified
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species from the inflorescence of a
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A.D. Orb.
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barbatus
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adults and larvae are associated with sugar cane fields in Puerto Rico (
<bibRefCitation id="6712FA774C6C6E0CFB006D916B17A540" author="Wolcott, GN" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico" pageId="89" pageNumber="90" pagination="1 - 312" title="Insectae Portoricensis. A preliminary annotated checklist of the insects of Porto Rico, with descriptions of some news (sic) species." volume="7" year="1923">Wolcott 1923</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="5A58FD061340EC16FA098D05D410F9D7" author="Wolcott, GN" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico" pageId="89" pageNumber="90" pagination="1 - 975" title="Insects of Puerto Rico." volume="32" year="1948">1948</bibRefCitation>
). In Puerto Rico, adult
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are prey for the invasive cane toad R.
<taxonomicName id="FB76AA17974969F2F7B296073DD74A22" genus="Oryctomorphina" lsidName="Oryctomorphina marina" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" rank="species" species="marina">marina</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="D6280EB18169417C9D7C839B191C66AD" author="Wolcott, GN" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico" pageId="89" pageNumber="90" pagination="79 - 84" title="What the giant Surinam toad, Bufomarinus L., is eating now in Puerto Rico." volume="21" year="1937">Wolcott 1937</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="7B962B36F2B93595024773807E075647" author="Wolcott, GN" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico" pageId="89" pageNumber="90" pagination="1 - 975" title="Insects of Puerto Rico." volume="32" year="1948">1948</bibRefCitation>
). Like
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,
<taxonomicName id="AB006420C9D02F944CFC1FD331A369A6" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Chalepides" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chalepides" order="Coleoptera" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Chalepides</taxonomicName>
species may have some semi-aquatic habits.
<taxonomicName id="125DCC70EBC642EB3AE4A8221859FACB" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Chalepides" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chalepides luridus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="luridus">Chalepides luridus</taxonomicName>
(Burmeister) and
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(Burmeister) have been collected along the edges of river banks (
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1973a
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).
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reportedly attacks the invasive, aquatic weed water hyacinth (
<taxonomicName id="2AFA396B5CA99DEAD939784B163C1EDB" class="Liliopsida" family="Pontederiaceae" genus="Eichhornia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Eichhornia crassipes" order="Commelinales" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="crassipes">Eichhornia crassipes</taxonomicName>
[Mart.] Solms [
<taxonomicName id="2AE0E8EC38BECCBD327D449BAA67D309" family="Pontederiaceae" lsidName="Oryctomorphina" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" rank="family">Pontederiaceae</taxonomicName>
]) in Uruguay (
<bibRefCitation id="51632E3CC6257C35D853A9EB2B0C3D5A" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Silveira Guido 1965</bibRefCitation>
,
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,
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).
<taxonomicName id="54ED53CBD6484A1BFBF7A8CC41E1B272" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Chalepides" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chalepides" order="Coleoptera" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Chalepides</taxonomicName>
species are attracted to lights at night (
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,
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,
<bibRefCitation id="B03A34317365BDF9B3EACEFC57C2A74C" author="Albuquerque, LSC de" journalOrPublisher="Revista Brasileira de Entomologia" pageId="62" pageNumber="63" pagination="248 - 254" title="Flight patterns and sex ratio of beetles of the subfamily Dynastinae (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rbe.2016.03.002" volume="60" year="2016">Albuquerque et al. 2016</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="FBDFC49C27CF6BFDE2A985C2B0FE55BF" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<taxonomicName id="3CCEB32761F8CCE035DFCE7EE60FEE8B" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Chalepides" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chalepides" order="Coleoptera" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Chalepides</taxonomicName>
species can be recognized by the following combination of characters: 1) dorsal coloration yellowish brown, dark brown, or almost black with greenish reflections in some species; 2) body convex, not strongly anteroposteriorly compressed or dorsoventrally flattened; 3) clypeus trapezoidal with apex truncate in dorsal view; 4) frontoclypeal suture complete or narrowly incomplete medially; 5) males with anterolateral margin of the mandibles lacking weak tooth; 6) mandibular molar area with rows of circular micropunctures; 7) mandibular molar area on proximal margin with 2 semicircular depressed pits; 8) galea of maxilla on inner surface with 2 fused basal teeth, 2 free medial teeth, and 2 fused apical teeth (2-2-2 arrangement); 9) pronotum with broadly incomplete beaded basal margin; 10) males and females with 3 protibial teeth on lateral margin, basal tooth not greatly reduced, only slightly removed from apical 2 teeth, and oriented laterally; 11) protibial spur straight to weakly deflexed; 12) males with inner protarsal claw enlarged and entire at apex, not cleft; 13) mesocoxae not widely separated, nearly touching; 14) metacoxae on lateral edge with transverse, depressed sulcus; 15) metacoxae with lateral edge perpendicular to ventral surface; 16) meso- and metatibiae with distal, transverse carinae; 17) anterior edge of hindwing distal to apical hinge with erect setae and lacking produced, membranous border; 18) vein RA with single row of pegs proximal to the apical hinge; 19) propygidium expanded, propygidium and pygidium fused, pygidium with long, dense setae.
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