Deltochilum icarus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Centro de Estudios Botánicos y Agroforestales, Laboratorio de Ecología Espacial, Maracaibo, estado Zulia, Venezuela.
- 2. 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.
- 3. Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Description
Deltochilum icarus (Olivier, 1789)
Fig. 30B
Scarabaeus icarus Olivier 1789: 155 (original description).Type locality: South America. Name-bearing type: lectotype (BMNH), designated by González-Alvarado & Vaz-de-Mello (2014), examined by FZVM.
Distribution
Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil (González-Alvarado & Vaz-de-Mello 2014).
Subregions of Venezuela
System of hills and low piedmont mountains of the Guiana Shield.
Literature records
González-Alvarado & Vaz-de-Mello 2014: 456 (Venezuela: Bolívar: 6 km S of San Isidro). — Hielkema & Hielkema 2019: 78 (Venezuela).
Remarks
The CEMT houses no Venezuelan specimens of Deltochilum icarus, but González-Alvarado & Vaz-de-Mello (2014) mention the presence of a male and a female from the state of Bolívar in the CMNC. Since their work is a complete monograph of the subgenus Hybomidium Shipp, 1897, including the study of the types and the delimitation of species boundaries, we consider it unlikely they would have misidentified the specimens. Moreover, the confirmed presence of the species in northern Amazonian areas in the Guianas and Brazil lends further credence to their Venezuelan record. We, thus, accept the species as certainly present in the country.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Olivier
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Deltochilum
- Species
- icarus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Deltochilum icarus (Olivier, 1789) sec. Rosa, Cupello & Vaz-De-Mello, 2024
References
- Olivier G. A. 1789. N ° 3. Scarabe. Scarabaeus. In: Olivier G. A. 1789. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des insectes, avec leurs caracteres generiques et specifiques, leur description, leur synonymie, et leur figure enluminee. Coleopteres. Tome Premier. Baudouin, Paris. [Publication date following Bousquet (2016).] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 61905
- Gonzalez-Alvarado A. & Vaz-de-Mello F. Z. 2014. Taxonomic review of the subgenus Hybomidium Shipp 1897 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Deltochilum), Annales de la Societe entomologique de France (N. S.) 50 (3 - 4): 431 - 476. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00379271.2014.989178
- Hielkema A. J. & Hielkema M. A. 2019. An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guianas. Insecta Mundi 732 (732): 1 - 306.
- Shipp J. W. 1897. On the synonymy of the genus Deltochilum. Entomologische Nachrichten 23 (13): 194 - 196. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 11417380 [accessed 16 Feb. 2024].