Coendou insidiosus ( Olfers, 1818 )

Voss, Robert S., 2011, Revisionary Notes on Neotropical Porcupines (Rodentia: Erethizontidae) 3. An Annotated Checklist of the Species of Coendou Lacépède, 1799, American Museum Novitates 2011 (3720), pp. 1-1 : 1-

Coendou insidiosus ( Olfers, 1818)

H [ystrix]. insidiosa Olfers, 1818: 211; type locality “ Brazil,” most probably Salvador in northeastern

Bahia (Voss and Angermann, 1997). Cercolabes pallidus Waterhouse, 1848: 434 ; type locality unknown (originally said to be from the

“West Indies,” but presumably from southeastern Brazil; Voss and Angermann, 1997). Synetheres (Sphiggurus) pallidus: Trouessart, 1881: 184 (name combination). Coendu pallidus: Trouessart, 1897: 622 (name combination). Coendu insidiosus: Trouessart, 1897: 623 (name combination). Coendou (Sphiggurus) insidiosus: Tate, 1935: 307 (name combination). Coendou (Sphiggurus) pallidus: Tate, 1935: 307 (name combination). Coendou (Sphiggurus) pallidum: Ellerman, 1940: 187 (misspelling of pallidus Waterhouse, 1848 ). Coendou (Sphiggurus) insidiosus insidiosus: Cabrera, 1961: 600 (name combination). Sphiggurus insidiosus: Husson, 1978: 484 (part, not including referred Surinamese specimens; name combination). Sphiggurus pallidus: Woods, 1993: 776 (name combination).

DISTRIBUTION: I have only examined specimens from the Brazilian state of Bahia, but the species is said to occur in moist forests from southern Sergipe to northern Rio de Janeiro (roughly between 11° and 22° S latitude), including easternmost Minas Gerais (Santos et al., 1987; Oliver and Santos, 1991) .

REMARKS: The synonymy provided above does not include name combinations that represent erroneous applications of the epithet insidiosus to other Coendou species (e.g., C.