Ancognatha scarabaeoides Erichson, 1847

Moore, Matthew R., Cave, Ronald D. & Branham, Marc A., 2018, Annotated catalog and bibliography of the cyclocephaline scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini), ZooKeys 745, pp. 101-378 : 115-116

Ancognatha scarabaeoides Erichson, 1847

Ancognatha scarabaeoides Erichson, 1847a: 97 [original combination].

Cyclocephala scarabaeoides (Erichson) [new combination by Lacordaire 1856: 398, 399].

Ancognatha scarabaeoides Erichson [revised combination by Bates 1888: 297].

syn. Chalepides unduavicus Prokofiev, 2012: 3-5 [original combination].

Ancognatha scarabaeoides Erichson [synonymy by Prokofiev 2013: 131].

Types.

Lectotype ♂ of A. scarabaeoides at ZMHB ( Endrődi 1966). Holotype ♂ of C. unduavicus at IEE ( Prokofiev 2012).

Distribution.

BOLIVIA: Cochabamba, La Paz. COLOMBIA: Antioquia, Atlántico, Bogota, D. C., Boyacá, Caldas, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Huila, Meta, Nariño, Quindío, Risaralda, Santander, Tolima, Valle del Cauca. PANAMA: Chiriquí. PERU: Ancash, Apurimac, Cajamarca, Cusco, Huancavelica, Huánuco, Junín, La Libertad, Puno, San Martín. VENEZUELA.

References.

Dejean 1833, 1836b, Sturm 1843, Erichson 1847a, 1848b, Burmeister 1847, Lacordaire 1856, Marschall 1857, Harold 1869b, Bates 1888, Arrow 1937b, Blackwelder 1944, Apolinar Maria 1946, Pike et al. 1976, Endrődi 1966, 1967b, 1985a, Ruiz and Posada 1986, Posada Ochoa 1989, Ruiz and Pamalpa 1990, Montoya et al. 1994, Díaz et al. 1997, Ratcliffe 2002a, 2003, Restrepo et al. 2003, Marino et al. 2004, Lucero Malfa et al. 2006, Neita-Moreno and Gaigl 2008, Vallejo and Morón 2008, Gasca-Álvarez and Amat-García 2010, Krajcik 2005, 2012, Breeschoten et al. 2013, Prokofiev 2012, 2013, 2014, Ratcliffe et al. 2015, López-García et al. 2015, Figueroa and Ratcliffe 2016, Villalobos-Moreno et al. 2016, 2017.

Remarks.

Prokofiev (2014) treated A. scarabaeoides ab. unduavica as an infrasubspecific entity (color variant) after treating the name as a synonym ( Prokofiev 2013).