Omorgus (Omorgus) suberosus ( Fabricius, 1775 ), 1968

Strümpher, Werner P. & Kalawate, Aparna S., 2023, Omorgus (Omorgus) khandesh (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Trogidae), a new species from India, along with an annotated catalogue of the Oriental and Palearctic species of the subgenus Omorgus Erichson, 1847, Zootaxa 5231 (5), pp. 501-522 : 518-519

Omorgus (Omorgus) suberosus ( Fabricius, 1775)

( Figs 40–41 )

Trox suberosus Fabricius, 1775: 31 (original description).

Trox suberosus: Herbst (1790) : 29 (description); Illiger (1802): 332 (catalogue); Laporte (1840):107 (as “ tuberosus ”— misspelling); Blanchard (1847): 190 (catalogue), Harold (1872): 119 (redescription); Leng (1920): 253 (catalogue); Mutchler (1925): 238 (catalogue of Galapagos Islands); Leng (1928): 422 (catalogue of New York); Denier (1936): 205 (natural history); Hayward (1936): 217 (feeding habit); Blackwelder (1944): 219 (catalogue—as “ suberosa ”); Van Dyke (1953): 123 (distribution data); Haaf (1954b): 739 (catalogue of Australia); Vaurie (1955): 60 (redescription); Richter (1958): 325 (biology); Vaurie (1962): 144 (redescription); Ritcher (1966): 73 (biology); Hatch (1971): 464 (key to the Pacific Northwest beetles); Chalumeau & Gruner (1974): 787 (catalogue of French Antilles); Zimsen (1964): 38 (catalogue).

Trox (Omorgus) suberosus: Burmeister (1876) : 257 (redescription); Arrow (1903): 516 (notes about fauna of the St. Vincent Island); Arrow (1912): 62 (catalogue); Scholtz (1982): 13 (catalogue).

Omorgus (Omorgus) suberosus: Baker (1968) : 42 (description of larvae); Scholtz (1986b): 361 (phylogenetics); Scholtz (1990): 1407 (redescription, illustrations, distribution, key); Strümpher et al. (2016): 70 (revision); Zídek (2013): 17, 20 (checklist); Ziani et al. (2015): 3 (distribution records from Canary Islands and Morroco); Zídek (2017): 109, 112 (checklist); Huchet & Costa-Silva (2018): 561 , 565 (new distribution records from South America); Hielkema & Hielkema (2019) (checklist of the Guianas); Costa-Silva et al. (2020): 2008, 2015, 2019 (distribution records for Brazil, illustrations).

Omorgus suberosus: Ratcliffe (1991) : 157 (description, distribution, key, illustration); Pittino (2006): 79 (catalogue); Ratcliffe & Paulsen (2008): 92, 93, 98 (description, key, illustration, distribution); Pittino & Bezdĕk (2016): 54 (catalogue).

For complete list of synonyms see Smith (2017): 88. See also Huchet & Costa-Silva (2018): 559.

Type locality: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro: off the coast of Rio de Janeiro city, Ilha Rasa ( Huchet & Costa-Silva 2018) .

Type depository. Type series could not be traced—see Costa-Silva et al. (2020) for more details.

Distribution: Belgium, Canary Islands,? Czech Republic, Morocco, Philippines (Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro, Negros), Spain ( Batet & López-Colón 1995; Ziani et al. 2015; Pittino & Bezdĕk 2016; Huchet & Costa-Silva 2018; Miquel 2019; Schoolmeesters 2022) [Introduced].

Comment: Omorgus (O.) suberosus , the ubiquitous New World species, has now been recorded from Australasian, Oriental, and Palaearctic regions (for more details see Huchet & Costa-Silva 2018).

Figures

FIGURES 40–41. Omorgus (Omorgus) suberosus (Fabricius, 1775) cleaned specimen. 40, habitus, dorsal view; 41, aedeagus, dorsal and lateral view. Images reproduced from Costa-Silva et al. (2020).