Coprophanaeus abas
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
Coprophanaeus abas (MacLeay, 1819)
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Phanaeus abas MacLeay, 1819: 126 (original description). Type locality: Trinidad and Tobago: Trinidad Island. Name-bearing type: neotype (BMNH), designated by Arnaud (2002d), not examined.
Phanaeus (Coprophanaeus) rex Balthasar, 1939f: 239 (original description). Type locality: South America. Name-bearing type: holotype (NMPC), not examined.
Coprophanaeus (Coprophanaeus) abas – Arnaud 2002b: 28 (key, distribution). — Edmonds & Zídek 2010: 43, 50 (key, comments, revision). — Gámez 2010: 15 (comments). — Pacheco & Vaz-de-Mello 2015: 2–3, 7 (list, distribution, key). — Gámez & Acconcia 2018: 73 (key). — Hielkema & Hielkema 2019: 94 (catalogue for the Guianas).
Coprophanaeus jasius abas – Arnaud 2002c: 3 (designation of neotype).
Coprophanaeus rex – Arnaud 2002c: 3 (cited as synonym of Coprophanaeus jasius abas).
Coprophanaeus abas – Arnaud 2002b: 28 (new combination, key, distribution). — Edmonds & Zídek 2010: 43, 50 (key, comments, revision). — Gámez 2010: 15 (comments). — Gámez & Acconcia 2018: 73 (key).
Material examined
VENEZUELA ‒ Amazonas • 2 specs; Caño Piojo; Apr. 2006; D. Garcia leg.; CEMT. ‒ Bolívar • 1 spec.; Isla de Anacoco; 6 Jun. 2006; curso NM2006 leg.; faeces, 23h, 16:20; CEMT.
Distribution
Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, and Brazil.
Subregions of Venezuela
Peneplain of the Casiquiare River–Upper Orinoco, System of hills and low piedmont mountains of the Guiana Shield, System of low mountains and hills Imataca-Cuyuní of Northeast Guyana Shield, Andes mountains, and Central Coast Mountain Range.
Literature records
Arnaud 2002b: 28 (Venezuela). — Edmonds & Zídek 2010: 43, 50 (Venezuela: Amazonas, Aragua, Barinas and Bolívar). — Gámez 2010: 15, 19 (Venezuela: Llanos del Orinoco). — Gámez & Acconcia 2018: 73 (Venezuela: Cordillera de Mérida).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CEMT
- Event date
- 2006-06-06
- Verbatim event date
- 2006-06-06
- Scientific name authorship
- MacLeay
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Coprophanaeus
- Species
- abas
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Coprophanaeus abas (MacLeay, 1819) sec. Rosa, Cupello & Vaz-De-Mello, 2024
References
- MacLeay W. S. 1819. Horӕ Entomologicӕ: or essays on the annulose animals. Vol. I. Part I. Containing general observations on the geography, manners, and natural affinities of the insects which compose the genus Scarabaeus of Linnaeus; to which are added a few incidental remarks on the genera Lucanus and Hister of the same author. With an appendix and plates. S. Bagster, London, xxx + [2] + 160 pp. + 3 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 48636
- Arnaud P. 2002 d. Description de nouvelles especes de Phanaeides (Col. Scarabaeidae). Besoiro 8: 2 - 5.
- Balthasar V. 1939 f. Neue Phanaeus - Arten. Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica 9 (2): 238 - 247.
- Arnaud P. 2002 b. Les Coleopteres du Monde, Vol. 28. Phanaeini. Dendropaemon, Tetramereia, Homalotarsus, Megatharsis, Diabroctis, Coprophanaeus, Oxysternon, Phanaeus, Sulcophanaeus. Hillside Books, Canterbury, England.
- Edmonds W. D. & Zidek J. 2010. A taxonomic review of the Neotropical genus Coprophanaeus Olsoufieff, 1924 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae). Insecta Mundi 129: 1 - 111.
- Gamez J. 2010. Escarabajos necrofagos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Phanaeini y Coleoptera: Silphidae: Necrophorinae y Silphinae) de la Cordillera de Los Andes, Depresion de Maracaibo y Llanos de Venezuela. Kempffiana 6 (2): 15 - 19.
- Pacheco T. L. & Vaz-de-Mello F. Z. 2015. Dung beetles of the tribe Phanaeini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidade [sic]: Scarabaeinae) from Roraima state, northern Brazil: checklist and key to species. Biota Neotropica 15 (2): 1 - 9. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / 1676 - 06032015014514
- Gamez J. & Acconcia R. 2018. Escarabajos coprofagos y necrofagos (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Phanaeini) del flanco andino llanero, piedemonte y llanos, com el reporte de nuevos registros para los estados de Barina y Merida (Venezuela). Revista Gaditana de Entomologia 9 (1): 65 - 75.
- Hielkema A. J. & Hielkema M. A. 2019. An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guianas. Insecta Mundi 732 (732): 1 - 306.
- Arnaud P. 2002 c. Descriptions d'especes nouvelles dans les genres Coprophanaeus, Phanaeus et Sulcophanaeus, Designation de Lectotypes et Neotypes. Besoiro 8: 2 - 5.