Phanaeus miles Castelnau, 1840 : 80

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), Zootaxa 4272 (1), pp. 83-102 : 89

Phanaeus miles Castelnau, 1840: 80 . Available name.

Type specimen: Unknown to us.

Type locality: ‘ Cayenne ’ ( Castelnau, 1840).

Nomenclatural history: In the same way as for P. heros , to our knowledge, the first author to include P. miles among the synonyms of C. lancifer was Lacordaire (1856), who considered Castelnau’s description as referring to males specimens of C. lancifer . This synonymy was followed by all subsequent revisers and cataloguers ( Nevinson 1892; Gillet 1911; d’Olsoufieff 1924; Pessôa 1934; Blackwelder 1944; Edmonds & Zídek 2010). No syntypes were found and, therefore, a lectotype designation is not possible at the moment. See the discussion on P. sylvanus for more details.