Sulcophanaeus menelas ( Castelnau, 1840 )

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Sulcophanaeus menelas ( Castelnau, 1840) ; Figure 2j (♂),

Figure 2k (♀)

Phanaeus menelas Castelnau 1840: 82 .

Phanaeus splendidulus (Fabricius, 1781) — Blanchard 1846: 175 (misidentification, see Edmonds 1994); Burmeister 1874: 132 (misidentification, see Edmonds 1994); Fabre 1899: 71 (misidentification, see Edmonds 1994); Judulien 1899: 371 (misidentification, see Edmonds 1994); Bruch 1911: 190 (misidentification, see Edmonds 1994); Gillet 1911: 86 (misidentification, see Edmonds 1994); Pessôa and Lane 1937: 482 (misidentification, see Edmonds 1994); Blackwelder 1944: 210 (misidentification, see Edmonds 1994).

Phanaeus (Phanaeus) splendidulus — d’Olsoufieff 1924: 35 (misidentification, see Edmonds 1994); Pessôa 1934: 29 (misidentification, see Edmonds 1994).

Phanaeus (Phanaeus) menelas — Martínez 1959: 105.

Sulcophanaeus menelas — Edmonds 2000: 42; Morelli et al. 1996: 11; Morelli and González-Vainer 1997: 197; Noriega-alvarado 2002: 68; Morelli et al. 2002: 54; Hamel-Leigue et al. 2006: 18; Audino et al. 2007: 75; da Silva et al. 2008a: 78; Almeida and Louzada 2009: 36; da Silva et al. 2009b: 35; Louzada and Carvalho e Silva 2009: 48; Audino et al. 2011: 123; Lopes et al. 2011: 74; Mariategui et al. 2006: 121; da Silva et al. 2012a: 249; Sánchez et al. 2012: 55; Campos and Hernández 2013: 51; Viegas et al. 2014: 707; Campos and Hernández 2015a: 220; Lima et al. 2015: 396; Garcia et al. 2016: 149; Tissiani et al. 2017: 405; Vaz-de-Mello et al. 2017: 4.

Material examined. Table 2.

Species diagnosis. Edmonds (2000).