Aspidolea singularis Bates, 1888

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 : 125

Aspidolea singularis Bates, 1888

Aspidolea singularis Bates, 1888: 296-297 [original combination].

syn. Aspidolea cevallosi Martínez, 1975a: 307-313 [original combination].

Aspidolea singularis Bates [synonymy by Endrődi 1985a: 155].

syn. Aspidolea similis Höhne, 1922a: 82-83 [original combination].

Aspidolea singularis ab. similis ( Höhne) [new infrasubspecific status by Endrődi 1966: 356].

Aspidolea singularis Bates [synonymy by Ratcliffe 2002a: 27].

syn. Aspidolea texana Höhne, 1922a: 84 [original combination].

Aspidolea singularis Bates [synonymy by Endrődi 1966: 356].

Types.

Type of A. singularis at BMNH ( Endrődi 1966). Holotypes of A. texana and A. similis both at ZMHB ( Endrődi 1966). Holotype ♂ of A. cevallosi at MACN (Antonio Martínez Collection) ( Martínez 1975).

Distribution.

BELIZE: Cayo, Stann Creek. BRAZIL. COLOMBIA: Amazonas, Antioquia, Boyacá, Cauca, Chocó, Cundinamarca, Meta, Risaralda, Santander, Tolima, Valle del Cauca. COSTA RICA: Alajuela, Cartago, Guanacaste, Heredia, Limón, Puntarenas, San José. ECUADOR: Bolívar, Guayas, Loja, Los Ríos. EL SALVADOR: Ahuachapán, La Libertad, Morazán, San Salvador, Santa Ana. GUATEMALA: Alta Veracruz, Baja Veracruz, Chiquimula, El Progresso, Escuintla, Huehuetenango, Izabal, Quetzaltenango, Quiché, Retalhuleu, San Marcos, Santa Rosa, Suchitepéquez, Zacapa. HONDURAS: Atlántida, Choluteca, Copán, Cortés, El Paraíso, Francisco Morazán, Gracias a Dios, Lempira, Olancho, Santa Bárbara, Yoro. MEXICO: Chiapas, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tabasco, Veracruz. NICARAGUA: Chontales, Jinotega, Matagalpa, Nueva Segovia, RAA Norte, Río San Juan. Panama: Bocas del Toro, Chiriquí, Coclé, Colón, Darien, Herrera, Panamá, Panama Canal Zone, San Blas, Veraguas. PERU.

References.

Bates 1888, Höhne 1922a, Arrow 1937b, Blackwelder 1944, Martínez 1975, Endrődi 1966, 1985a, Morón et al. 1985, Palacios-Rios et al. 1990, Thomas 1993, Maes 1987, 1994, Poole and Gentili 1996, Ratcliffe and Morón 1997, Dupuis 1999, Elizondo-Solís 2002, Ratcliffe 2002a, 2003, Restrepo-Giraldo et al. 2003, Pardo-Locarno et al. 2003, 2005a, Huerta-Espino 2005, Neita-Moreno et al. 2006, 2007, Ratcliffe and Cave 2006, Pacheco-F. et al. 2008, Útima and Vallejo 2008, Neita-Moreno 2011, Krajcik 2005, 2012, García-López et al. 2010, 2011, 2013, Pardo-Locarno 2013, Otavo et al. 2013, Yepes-Rodriguez et al. 2013, López-García et al. 2015, Ratcliffe et al. 2013, 2015.

Remarks.

Aspidolea singularis was reported from San Antonio, Texas (United States) ( Höhne 1922a, Blackwelder and Blackwelder 1948, Endrődi 1966, 1985a). Saylor (1945) suggested that these data were likely erroneous. More complete data indicate that the northern range limit of A. singularis is near the state of Puebla, Mexico ( Ratcliffe et al. 2013).