Dichotomius (Dichotomius) telamon ( Harold, 1869 )

Chamorro, William, Lopera-Toro, Alejandro & Rossini, Michele, 2021, A new species and distribution records of Dichotomius Hope, 1838 (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in Colombia, Zootaxa 4942 (2), pp. 193-206 : 195

Dichotomius (Dichotomius) telamon ( Harold, 1869)

( Figs. 3 A–B)

Pinotus pelamon Harold, 1869a: 128 (original description). Type locality: Brésil [= Brazil] .

Type series. The holotype (female) is deposited at the MNHN (examined, see Figs. 3 A–B).

Remarks: According to Luederwaldt (1929) this species has a length of 30 mm. It is distributed in Brazil ( Gillet 1911: 62; Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 193); and Guianas ( Gillet 1911: 62; Vulcano & Pereira 1967: 585; Hielkema & Hielkema 2019: 53 as Dichotomius pelamon ). The epithet “ pelamon ” was an involuntary and typographical error that the author himself corrected in the same year (see Harold 1869 b: 60).

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FIGURE 3. Dichotomius species. A, Dichotomius telamon (dorsal view), female; B, Dichotomius telamon (lateral view), female; C, Dichotomius carinatus (dorsal view), male; D, Dichotomius podalirius (dorsal view), male; E, (lateral view), male.