Dichotomius (Dichotomius) telamon ( Harold, 1869 )

Chamorro, William, Lopera-Toro, Alejandro & Rossini, Michele, 2021, A new species and distribution records of Dichotomius Hope, 1838 (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in Colombia, Zootaxa 4942 (2), pp. 193-206 : 195

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4942.2.3

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4639236

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scientific name

Dichotomius (Dichotomius) telamon ( Harold, 1869 )
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Dichotomius (Dichotomius) telamon ( Harold, 1869) View in CoL

( Figs. 3 View FIGURE 3 A–B)

Pinotus pelamon Harold, 1869a: 128 (original description). Type locality: Brésil [= Brazil] .

Type series. The holotype (female) is deposited at the MNHN (examined, see Figs. 3 View FIGURE 3 A–B).

Remarks: According to Luederwaldt (1929) this species has a length of 30 mm. It is distributed in Brazil ( Gillet 1911: 62; Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 193); and Guianas ( Gillet 1911: 62; Vulcano & Pereira 1967: 585; Hielkema & Hielkema 2019: 53 as Dichotomius pelamon ). The epithet “ pelamon ” was an involuntary and typographical error that the author himself corrected in the same year (see Harold 1869 b: 60).

Gillet, J. J. E. (1911) Coleopterorum catalogus. Pars 38: Scarabaeidae: Coprinae I. W. Junk, Berlin, 100 pp.

Harold, E. (1869 a) Revision des especes qui rentrant dans le genre Pinotus Erichson. L'Abeille, 6, 123 - 144.

Hielkema, A. J. & Hielkema, M. A. (2019) An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guianas. Insecta Mundi, 732, 1 - 306.

Luederwaldt, H. (1929) As especies brasileiras do genero Pinotus, com algumas consideracies tambem sobre outras especies. Revista do Museu Paulista, 16, 1 - 174.

Vaz-de-Mello, F. Z. (2000) Estado atual de conhecimento dos Scarabaeinae s. str. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeiodea) do Brasil. In: Martin-Piera, F., Morrone, J. J. & Melic, A. (Eds.), Hacia un proyecto CYTED para el inventario y estimacion de la diversidad entomologica en Iberoamerica PRIBES- 2000. m 3 m: Monografias Tercer Milenio. Vol. 1. Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, Zaragoza, pp. 183 - 195.

Vulcano, M. A. & Pereira, F. S. (1967) Sinopse dos Passalidae e Scarabaeidae s. str. da regi o Amazonica (Insecta, Coleoptera). Atas do Simposio sobre a Biota Amazonica, Zoologia, 5, 533 - 603.

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FIGURE 3. Dichotomius species. A, Dichotomius telamon (dorsal view), female; B, Dichotomius telamon (lateral view), female; C, Dichotomius carinatus (dorsal view), male; D, Dichotomius podalirius (dorsal view), male; E, (lateral view), male.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

SubFamily

Scarabaeinae

Genus

Dichotomius