Homonyx cupreus Guerin-Meneville , 1839

Moore, Matthew R., Jameson, Mary L., Garner, Beulah H., Audibert, Cedric, Smith, Andrew B. T. & Seidel, Matthias, 2017, Synopsis of the pelidnotine scarabs (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae, Rutelini) and annotated catalog of the species and subspecies, ZooKeys 666, pp. 1-349 : 1

Homonyx cupreus Guerin-Meneville, 1839

Homonyx cupreus Guérin-Méneville, 1839: 300 [original combination].

Distribution.

ARGENTINA: Corrientes, Salta ( Burmeister 1844, Ohaus 1913, 1918, 1934b).

Remarks.

Homonyx cupreus Guérin-Méneville was erroneously reported from the extreme southern Chilean Magallanes Province and later from the specific locality of Port Famine (modern Puerto del Hambre) ( Solier 1851, Reed 1876, Philippi 1887, Ohaus 1910c, 1918, 1934b, Machatschke 1972, Krajcik 2008). This locality is dubius based on the distribution of other known Homonyx species, which have their diversity centered in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and central Argentina. Further collecting in southern Chile and southern Argentina is needed to establish whether Homonyx species indeed occur there.