Strategus atlanticus Ratcliffe, 1976

Ratcliffe, Brett C. & Cave, Ronald D., 2008, The Dynastinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of the Bahamas with a description of a new species of Cyclocephala from Great Inagua Island, Insecta Mundi 2008 (24), pp. 1-10 : 8

Strategus atlanticus Ratcliffe

Strategus atlanticus , known only by the holotype, is from San Salvador Island (formerly Watling Island) in the Bahamas ( Ratcliffe 1976). Christopher Columbus made his first New World landfall at this island on 12 October 1492. The name of the island was changed from Watling to San Salvador, the original name given to it by Columbus, in 1926. The occurrence of S. atlanticus on San Salvador in the southern Bahamas is almost certainly the result of its ancestors being fortuitously rafted from Cuba, Hispaniola, or Puerto Rico, where it has close phylogenetic relationships with S. aenobarbus (Fabr.) , S. ajax , and S. talpa (Fabr.) ( Ratcliffe 1976) .

San Salvador, 10-21 October 1891, C. B. Cory, 1 male, MCZC .