Neoathyreus (Neoathyreus) excavatus ( Laporte, 1840 )

Hielkema, Auke J. & Hielkema, Meindert A., 2019, An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guianas, Insecta Mundi 732 (732), pp. 1-306 : 9

Neoathyreus (Neoathyreus) excavatus ( Laporte, 1840)

Athyreus excavatus Laporte 1840: 103 ( French Guiana)

= Athyreus soesilae Makhan 2008: 1 ( Suriname) - Hielkema 2017: 2 (syn. nov.)

Distribution. Guyana: Bodkin 1919: 213 (as Athyreus excavatus ); Blackwelder 1944: 219 (as Athyreus excavatus ); Howden 1985: 43. Suriname: Howden 1985: 43; Makhan 2008: 1 (as Athyreus soesilae ); Hielkema 2017: 2; MHCN; NZCS. French Guiana: Laporte 1840: 103 (as Athyreus excavatus ); Blackwelder 1944: 219 (as Athyreus excavatus ); Howden 1985: 43; Boilly 2011b: 30; Brûlé et al. 2014: 174. Brazil (NA): Blackwelder 1944: 219 (as Athyreus excavatus ); Howden 1985: 43 (NA). Venezuela (EO): Blackwelder 1944: 219 (as Athyreus excavatus ); Howden 1985: 43 (EO). Other: Boucomont 1912: 5 (Central America, South America - as Athyreus excavatus ); Balthasar 1941c: 357 (Peru - as Athyreus excavatus ); Blackwelder 1944: 219 (Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama - as Athyreus excavatus ); Howden 1985: 43 (Colombia, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago); Boilly 2011b: 30 (Mexico); Hielkema 2017: 2 (Guatemala).

Note. Identifications of Neoathyreus excavatus made before Howden (1985) are not reliable because Athyreus lanuginosus Klug, 1845 (p. 28) (now Neoathyreus lanuginosus ) was treated as a synonym of A. excavatus . These species are partly sympatric and occur throughout the research area.