Phanaeus heros 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 heros Castelnau, 1840: 80 . Available name.

Type specimen: Unknown to us.

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

Nomenclatural history: To our knowledge, this name was first mentioned as a synonym of C. lancifer by Lacordaire(1856), who cited that as males of this species; this opinion was followed by all subsequent revisers and cataloguers ( Nevinson, 1892; Gillet, 1911; d’Olsoufieff, 1924; Pessôa, 1934; Blackwelder, 1944; Edmonds & Zídek, 2010). No syntypes of this name were found by us and, therefore, a lectotype designation is not possible at the moment. See the discussion on P. sylvanus for more details.