Panelus (Panelus) minutus ( Boucomont, 1914 ) Tarasov, 2017

Tarasov, Sergei, 2017, A cybertaxonomic revision of the new dung beetle tribe Parachoriini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) and its phylogenetic assessment using molecular and morphological data, Zootaxa 4329 (2), pp. 101-149 : 111

Panelus (Panelus) minutus ( Boucomont, 1914) new combination

Cassolus minutus Boucomont, 1914: 252 Cassolus minutus ; Balthasar 1963: 263

Type locality. Mt. Gedeh , Java

Comments. This species was originally described in Cassolus . Unfortunately, I was not able to locate the type specimen of this species in the collection of MNHN where it was presumably deposited. However, the original description of Boucomont (1914) includes evidence allowing the taxonomic assessment of this species. In that paper, Boucomont gives two important notes: (1) the species C. minutus is so similar to Panelus parvulus Waterhouse, 1874 that can be confused with it, and (2) both C. sumatranus [i.e., Panelus sumatranus ] and C. minutus remarkably resemble Panelus in their body shape, epistome, tarsi, and protibia. Additionally, Boucomont (1914) mentioned that C. minutus is significantly smaller in size than C. sumatranus . Boucomont’s findings of the close affiliations between C. sumatranus and the members of Panelus are supported by this study. I follow the mentioned evidences for similarity between C. minutus and the members of Panelus , and thereby transfer C. minutus to Panelus as well.