Dyscinetus gagates (Burmeister, 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 : 231

Dyscinetus gagates (Burmeister, 1847)

Chalepus gagates Burmeister, 1847: 81 [original combination].

Dyscinetus gagates (Burmeister) [new combination by Harold 1869a: 123].

Types.

Lectotype ♂ at MLUH ( Endrődi 1966).

Distribution.

ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires. BOLIVIA: Beni. BRAZIL: Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo.

References.

Dejean 1833, 1836b, Burmeister 1847, Reiche 1859, Harold 1869a, Arrow 1937b, Bacigalupo 1939, López Cristóbal 1941, Bosq 1945, Mendheim 1953, Moore 1958, Endrődi 1966, 1985a, Balut 1970, Abrahão and Amante 1970, Mauco and Favero 2004, Riehs 2005, Dupuis 2006, Soave et al. 2006, Krajcik 2005, 2012, Breeschoten et al. 2013, Cherman et al. 2013, Salgado-Neto et al. 2016.

Remarks.

Ratcliffe et al. (2013) did not record D. gagates from Mexico, Guatemala, or Belize. The data from Mexico previously reported for D. gagates may be erroneous ( Endrődi 1966, 1985a).