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Phanaeus ducalis Castelnau 1840

Description

Phanaeus ducalis Castelnau, 1840: 79. Available name.

Type specimens: Unknown to us, but certainly, the description was based on a syntypic series (rather than a holotype), since Castelnau (1840) described sexual dimorphism.

Type locality:Brésil ’ (Castelnau 1840).

Nomenclatural history: To our knowledge, the first author to cite P. ducalis among the synonyms of C. ensifer was Lacordaire (1856), who thought this name referred to male of this species; this synonymy was endorsed by all subsequent revisers and cataloguers (e.g., Nevinson 1892; Gillet 1911; d’Olsoufieff 1924; Pessôa 1934; Blackwelder 1944; Edmonds & Zídek 2010). No syntypes of this name were found and, therefore, a lectotype designation is not possible at the moment. For more details, see the discussion above on P. sylvanus.

Notes

Published as part of Maldaner, Maria E., Cupello, Mario, Ferreira, Daniela C. & Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z., 2017, Type specimens and names assigned to Coprophanaeus (Megaphanaeus) d'Olsoufieff, 1924, the largest New World dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Phanaeini), pp. 83-102 in Zootaxa 4272 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/583381

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Castelnau
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Phanaeus
Species
ducalis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Phanaeus ducalis Castelnau, 1840 sec. Maldaner, Cupello, Ferreira & Vaz-De-Mello, 2017

References

  • Castelnau, F. L. N. C. le C. de. (1840) Histoire naturelle des Insectes Coleopteres. Avec une introduction renfermantel l'anatomie et la physiologie des animaux articules, par M. Brulle; ouvrage accompagne de 155 planches gravees sur acier representant plus de 800 sujets. Tome deuxieme. P. Dumenil, Paris, 563 pp., 38 pls.
  • Lacordaire, J. T. (1856) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Genera des coleopteres, ou expose methodique et critique de tous les genres proposes jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. Tome troisieme. Librarie Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 594 pp.
  • Nevinson, B. G. (1892) Revised synonymic list of species in the genera Phanaeus MacLeay and Oxysternon Castelnau. Privately published, London, 10 pp.
  • Gillet, J. J. E. (1911) Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk editus a S. Schenkling. Pars 38: Scarabaeidae: Coprinae I. W. Junk, Berlin, 100 pp.
  • d'Olsoufieff, G. (1924) Les Phanaeides (Coleoptera - Lamellicornia), Famille Scarabaeidae - Tr. Coprini. Insecta, 13, 4 - 201.
  • Pessoa, S. B. (1934) Contribuicao para o conhecimento das especies brasileiras do genero Phanaeus (Col. Scarabaeidae). Annaes da Faculdade de Medicina de Sao Paulo, 10, 279 - 314.
  • Blackwelder, R. E. (1944) Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, West Indies and South America. Part 2. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 185, 189 - 341.
  • Edmonds, W. D. & Zidek, J. (2010) A taxonomic review of the Neotropical genus Coprophanaeus Olsoufieff, 1924 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae). Insecta Mundi, 129, 1 - 111.