Ateuchus Weber, 1801

Rosa, Cecilia Lozano De La, Cupello, Mario & Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z., 2024, The dung beetles of Venezuela (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): catalogue and updated distribution, European Journal of Taxonomy 959 (1), pp. 1-272 : 16

Genus Ateuchus Weber, 1801

Ateuchus Weber, 1801: 10 (original description). Type species: Ateuchus histeroides Weber, 1801 , by original monotypy.

Choeridium Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828: 356 [cited under two alternative spellings: Choeridium and Chaeridium , the former the correct original spelling ( Cupello et al. 2021a)] (original description). Type species: Choeridium simplex Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828 , by subsequent designation of Chevrolat (1843).

Ateuchus – Fabricius 1801: 54 (redescription). — Latreille 1829: 532 (redescription). — Castelnau 1840: 63 (redescription). — Reiché 1841: 212 (key). — Lacordaire 1855: 66 (redescription). — Lucas 1920: 125 (catalogue, distribution). — Chapin 1946: 79 (synonym of Ateuchus Weber ). — Pereira 1954b: 56 (key). — Roze 1955: 43 (checklist for Venezuela). — Martínez 1959: 76 (catalogue for Argentina). — Halffter & Mathews 1966: 256 (catalogue, distribution). — Vulcano & Pereira 1967: 577 (key for the Amazon, cited as Atheuchus Weber, 1801 ). — Howden & Young 1981: 13, 68 (key, redescription). — Halffter & Edmonds 1982: 137 (catalogue, distribution). — Kohlmann 1984: 25 (redescription); 1997: 178 (redescription). — Medina & Lopera-Toro 2000: 306 (illustrated key). — Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 190 (checklist for Brazil). — Medina et al. 2001: 137 (checklist for Colombia). — Ratcliffe et al. 2002: 49 (key). — Ratcliffe 2002: 13 (checklist for Panama). — Morón 2003: 52 (list). — Hamel-Leigue et al. 2006: 12 (list for Bolivia). — Vaz-de-Mello et al. 2011a: 4, 13, 21, 28, 36, 43–44 (key). — Carvajal et al. 2011: 126, 318 (description, list for Ecuador). — Krajcik 2012: 49 (list). — Solís & Kohlmann 2012: 4 (checklist for Costa Rica). — Boilly & Vaz-de-Mello 2013: 108 (key). — Chamorro et al. 2018: 77 (list for Ecuador); 2019: 9, 13 (catalogue). — Hielkema & Hielkema 2019: 40 (catalogue for the Guianas).

Choeridium – Castelnau 1840: 83 (redescription). — Lacordaire 1855: 93 (redescription, synonym of Ateuchus ). — Harold 1867a: 9 (key); 1868b: 32 (redescription); 1868c: 55 (key); 1869d: 1006 (catalogue). — Gillet 1911a: 52 (catalogue). — Lucas 1920: 182 (catalogue, distribution). — Dawson 1922: 61 (key). — Luederwaldt 1929: 11 (key); 1931a: 369 (key). — Paulian 1938: 234 (key). — Balthasar 1939c: 44 (comment). — Pessôa & Lane 1941: 437 (key). — Blackwelder 1944: 204 (list).